“Good God!”
As that expression of extreme amazement broke from him, Corporal Bracknell halted abruptly, looking at the beautiful girl by his side, with incredulous eyes.
“It is quite true,” she said. “I am Koona Dick’s wife—or widow.”
Still he did not speak, and watching him the girl saw a flash of something like horror come into his eyes.
“And you went to meet him—last night?” he said, at last, in a shaking voice.
“I have not said so,” answered the girl quickly. “You have read that note, but you must not surmise—”
“I saw you,” broke in the corporal quickly.
“You saw me?” It was Joy Gargrave’s turn to be astonished, and as he looked at her it seemed to him that fear was shining in her eyes.
“Yes, I saw you,” he answered mechanically.
“Where?” she demanded.