“You fully accept my scheme then?” she interrupted.
“As an inspiration of God! The staff has tested it with a hundred hostile suppositions. It is sure to win if you can train a million girls to co-operate with us in the uprising, win to our cause one man in ten in the Imperial Army, and wield a knife with deadly power. The only question is, can you get those girls?”
“I have them already—”
“A million?”
“And more—I had to stop. I could have sworn another million.”
“We will be ready in three months—”
“You can have four—”
“You have fixed the date?”
“Yes. There can be but one—the Emperor’s birthday—”
Vassar clasped Virginia in his arms.