Mr.Moffat especially is so daring; he is always risking his life for some one else--and no one seems able to tell me anything about either of them." The lady paused, blushing violently, as she realized what she had been saying.

"Really you must not suppose me unmaidenly, Lieutenant," she explained, her eyes shyly lifting, "but you know those gentlemen were my very earliest acquaintances here, and they have been so kind.

I was so shocked when Naida kissed you, Lieutenant; but the poor girl was so grateful to you for going to the help of Bob Hampton that she completely forgot herself.

It is simply wonderful how infatuated the poor child is with that man.

He seems almost to exercise some power of magic over her, don't you think ?" "Why frankly, Miss Spencer, I scarcely feel like discussing that topic just now.