And then her head was on his shoulder, and his arms were about her. "Don't die!" she sobbed. "Don't die!"
"Don't fear," he said, "I feel that I'll make short work of him."
She smiled courageously back at him; with her hands upon his shoulders she held him back and looked at him with tilted head.
"If you are killed," she said, "it will have been more than most women ever get, to have known and loved you for two days."
"Two days?" he said. "Forever!"
"Forever!" she said.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE DUEL
Cleggett took Wilton Barnstable by the sleeve and drew him towards Loge, who, still seated on the deck with his long legs stretched out in front of him, was now yawning with a cynical affectation of boredom.