"Why don't you go back to your man?" he asked.
"After betraying his plans? And after he'd forbidden me to leave the house today? You don't know him!"
"Well, evidently, if I go, I'm certain to be shot," he smiled "Isn't that so?"
"Yes," she muttered.
"Then—why did you come to warn me?"
"I can't—" she choked—"I can't stand by and see you shot!"
"Not even by your man's assassin?"
"Not even that."
"For Christ's sake, Major Adair," she burst out suddenly, "don't go!"
"That's for me to decide," he said grimly. "If you'd tell me where to find that assassin—I don't ask you to betray your man—I understand that side of it—you might save my life. Or if you'd come earlier——"