A prisoner, she is safe in their hands, she can be rescued as she was once before or more likely be sent back to her own people." "But, Weber, we do not know what will happen in a war like this, so vast, so confused, and with passions beginning to run so high.

And I was away when she was taken! I who should have been on guard every moment! How can I ever meet Philip's look! How can I ever answer my own reproaches!" "You have nothing with which to reproach yourself, Mr.Scott.You did what anyone naturally would have done under such circumstances.

It has been a chance, the one dangerous possibility out of a hundred, that has gone against us." John stood up.

His despair was gone.

All his natural courage came flowing back in a torrent, and Weber saw in his eyes the glow of a resolution, stern, tenacious and singularly like that of Lannes himself.
"I mean to get her back," he said quietly.