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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I'll assume all risk, but I am not willing to leave her like this. Perhaps I understand the situation better than you do. You stay where I can call you if necessary, and look after the search for whoever got Le Gaire. Bell and Miles are out on the roof trying for the attic. I won't be gone long."
Then the trooper entered, his heels clicking together as he saluted just within the doorway. "Sergeant," said Le Gaire shortly. "I have reason to suspect there is a man hidden in that room yonder. I'll keep an eye on this young lady, while you find out." Slade took a step forward, and the girl's dress rustled. "Wait just a minute, Sergeant," she said briefly.
I opened these cautiously, half expecting Le Gaire to dash out, with any weapon he might have secured, desperate enough to fight hard. But nothing occurred, the rooms showed no sign of having been lately occupied. I was at the one next to the last when a board creaked somewhere behind me, and I wheeled about instantly, and ran back to the head of the stairs.
He was back in another moment, grasping the arm of the surprised Confederate, who stared about at us in silent wonderment. "Captain Bell," I asked, "I presume you have some acquaintance with the duelling code?" He bowed gravely, waiting for me to explain. "Captain Le Gaire has seen fit to strike me in the face with his open hand, and I have agreed to meet him at once.
"Then you have seen Le Gaire since is that so?" She turned her back toward me, and stepped into the hall. The action was defiant, almost insulting. "Miss Willifred, I insist on an answer." "Indeed," carelessly, "to what?" "To my question have you seen Le Gaire since?" "I refuse to tell you." It was an instant before I found my voice, or could control my words.
Le Gaire provoked the fight, and was rather nasty about it in my judgment, but all we are anxious about now is to get the preliminaries over with as soon as possible. We acknowledge that your man was the one challenged." "Then, sir, we demand an immediate meeting, and name swords as the weapons." Hardy turned to me, a smile of delight illumining his face.
"I I hardly know," confused by this direct question, and the flash of her eyes. "I supposed I had." "Yet with nothing but imagination to build upon. Have I ever told you I did not care for Captain Le Gaire, or that I loved you?" "No," I admitted, feeling myself driven relentlessly to the wall. "I am not angry at you, for I understand how all this has occurred.
I saw her reel against the side of the window, every trace of color deserting her face, her eyes staring down into the darkness. She gasped for breath, yet answered, before a thought flashed through my brain: "Only a friend, papa. Did you suppose I would consent to remain alone long?" "Le Gaire said he just left you." She leaned out over the rail, half concealing me from view.
Under the laws of the code we can hold you to your first choice, and I'm inclined to do so. Great joke on Le Gaire. However, I am willing to leave it to my man. What do you say, Galesworth?" I had retired to the opposite side of the room, and was leaning with one arm on the mantel. In spite of the seriousness of the affair, it was impossible not to be amused by this sudden turn.
"Miss Hardy," I said soberly, "what use is there for us to play at cross-purposes? You realize that Captain Le Gaire suspects that you have an interest in me, that you have helped in my escape. He doesn't like me any the better for that. Men will do strange things when they are in love such men as Le Gaire.
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