Both of them stared out of the window. Minutes passed. Then:
"Lady, how did you find me?"
"One cannot sell three great rubies at the door of a jail, sir, and go quite unnoticed," she answered, flushing. "My agents were on the watch. They investigated, and I came on from Boston."
Still she did not look at him. Polaris came a little nearer.
"Why did you tell them all—"
"That you are a hero!" she flashed hotly. "I want all the world to know it!" She faced him at last.
"And—but—the captain?"
She looked at him.
In a second his arms were around her. For the second time their lips met. Time flew by unheeded. Marcus looked at them in wonder, and then curled calmly on a rug and stretched his nose.
Finally: