"You do think of that—the lives?"
"Yes, why shouldn't I?"
"Of those on your side!" she exclaimed, turning away.
"Yes, of those first," he replied. "And, Marta, I did not tell you why Feller was here because he did not want me to, and I was curious to see if he had sustained power enough to keep you from discovering his simulation. I did not think he would remain. I thought that in a week he would tire of the part. But now you must have the whole story. You will listen?"
"I should not be fair if I did not, should I?" she replied, with a weary shadow of a smile.
XI
MARTA HEARS FELLER'S STORY
To tell the story as Lanstron told it is to have it from the partisan lips of a man speaking for a man out of the depths of a friendship grown into the fibre of youth. It is better written by the detached narrator.