So you will not be kept long from your Strangers, John." "I go willingly," said John, "and I'm glad, Philip, that you've seen fit to consider me worth while as a part of the escort." He spoke quietly, but his glance wandered to Julie Lannes.

It may have been a chance, but hers turned toward him at the same time, and the eyes, the blue and the gray, met.

Again the girl's brilliant color deepened a little, and she looked quickly away.

Only the watchful and grim Suzanne saw.
"Do you have to go away at once, Philip ?" asked Julie.
"In one hour, my sister.

There is not much rest for the _Arrow_ and me these days, but they are such days as happen perhaps only once in a thousand years, and one must do his best to be worthy.