He asked me to drive to the club
first; if you were not there, then I was to drive to the Arlington.
Failing to find you at either place, I was to go back to the hotel in
the evening. In the event of my finding you at the hotel I was to see
you in the ladies' parlor. But, oh! What can you think of me, Mr.
Benson, to have come to you on such an errand--on a mission to save a
betrayer of his Flag?"
"You came innocently, Miss Huston; that is all that I can understand.
And your whole attitude, since you discovered the truth, has been that
of a loyal American girl who would crush her heart, even, for her
country's honor."
"It isn't going to be as hard as you think, perhaps," she smiled,
bitterly, "to cast the man out of my heart. The man that I now know
Donald Graves to be never was in my heart. There is no room, there,
for a traitor."
She glanced out of the cab at the scene through which they were passing.
Jack Benson looked at the same time.
"I am terribly uneasy," she confessed. "Perhaps, even now, Mr. Benson,
you had much better leave this carriage and let me go forward alone. I
am a woman, and therefore safe.
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