It is for me to share in her defence, not in her safety." He raised the arm that bore the Signet, and looked at me with the calm commanding glance that never failed to enforce his will.

"Take your place," he said; and recalled to the instincts of the camp, I raised my hand in the military salute so long disused, and obeyed in silence.
"Strike promptly, strike hard, and strike home," said Esmo to his little party.

"The danger that may threaten us is not from the law or from the State, but from an attempt at murder through a perversion of the law and in the name of the Sovereign.

Those who threaten us aim also at the Campta's life, and those we may meet are his foes as well as ours.

Conquered here, they can hardly assail us again.