I shan't allow
even you to interfere."
"But--oh, it is horrible! for two minutes."
He shook his head.
"You must! Please."
"What use?"
Let me see you alone
Her troubled gaze shifted to the strong, brown, sun-baked face of
the man who had put himself in this deadly peril to save her. His
keen, blue-gray eyes, very searching and steady, met hers with a
courage she thought splendid, and her heart cried out
passionately against the sacrifice.
"You shall not do it. Oh, please let me talk it over with you."
"No."
"Have you forgotten already?--and you said you would always
remember." She almost whispered it.
She had stung his consent at last. "Very well," he said, and
opened the door to let her pass into the inner room.
But she noticed that his eyes were hard as jade.
"Don't you see that he came here to save me?" she cried, when
they were alone. "Don't you see it was for me? He didn't come to
spy out your place of hiding."
"I see that he has found it. If I let him go, he will bring back
a posse to take us."
"You could ride across the line into Mexico."
"I could, but I won't.
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