"Don't deny it! No one else could have passed through our lines; and you gave her a safe conduct through yours.

Yes, I might have known it.

And this was the creature they sent me for an ally and confidant!" For an instant Brant felt the sting of this enforced contrast between the two women.

But he only said,-- "You forget that I did not know you were the spy, nor do I believe that she suspected you were my wife." "Why should she ?" she said almost fiercely.

"I am known among these people only by the name of Benham---my maiden name.