ALONE AT LAST
“I was fired by emotion. Drawing myself up to her full height I stretched out my arms.
‘O, woman....’”
Alone at Last
“Lady Sarah,” I said hurriedly—“I must defer what I was going to say until another time. I was forgetting what made me ask for this interview—the night—your beauty—but the point is this. You, we, all of us are in imminent danger. On the hills yonder lies the camp of Azad the Terrible!”
I could see her pale in the moonlight.
“Even now his spies are probably prowling about, watching your camp, counting your men, your camels, your—women.”
“What would you suggest?” she asked tremulously.