“I’ve sent off a wire asking him here,” he said.
She laughed again.
“You don’t lose time... And what’s to become of me? Plainly, you wouldn’t expose me to such a risk as that.”
“I shall banish you to the hut we looked at on our arrival. It’s quarter of a mile away, and the bush just behind it. You’ll sleep there and spend your days in the bush.”
“What a lively programme!” she ejaculated.
“Fairly dull—yes.” He went nearer to her and laid a hand on her shoulder. “I’m not going to pretend that you’ll get much joy of it,” he said. “But you wanted to help me.”
She looked up and nodded.
“Yes, I wanted to help... If I had to spend my nights as well as my days in the bush, I’d do it.”
His hand gripped her shoulder till it hurt.
“You’re the right stuff,” he said,—“the best stuff. You and I together will pull this off.”