"First, by a stroke of luck, he saved you from death by snake-bite.

He always had the luck on his side, that chap.

I should have caught him but for that.

I'd got him--I'd got him in the hollow of my hand.

But you"-- for the first time there was a streak of tenderness in his speech--"you were a new chum then--you held me up.
Remember how you covered his retreat when we came up?
Did you really think I didn't know ?" She uttered a sobbing laugh.