The clear eyes looked up straight into his face.
"Well, then," she said, "I heard every word you said to each other there in the moonlight."
[CHAPTER XIV.]
For the second time since he had met Leonora West, Captain Lancaster devoutly wished that the earth would open and hide him from the sight of those gray-blue eyes.
"I heard every word," she repeated, and his memory flew back anxiously to that night.
"Oh, impossible!" he cried. "You had retired. We were alone."
The fair cheek flushed warmly.
"I shall have to confess," she said. "But you must not judge me too hardly, Captain Lancaster."