Part 46 (1/2)
”But you knoho he is!”
”Yes; he's carrying the despatches Still, he looked played out and he had got through”
”Through your friends!”
”I suppose so It didn't seem to make enerous, but generosity of that kind must be paid for,”
Blanca answered in a hard tone ”It will cost our people soot his orders, I don't know that we can leave the town”
”Grahame and I must find a way But you'd be safer without us I can't let you run into needless danger”
Blanca laughed
”Do you think I would leave you to get into fresh difficulties? With a temperament like yours, you're not to be trusted alone”
”I handled Gomez pretty well,” Walthew boasted
”And you still wear the bandage he saw you with! Is it safe to take it off?”
”I'd forgotten it,” he ade into the lane with soirl seemed amused, but she made no remark until they reached a quiet street
”Well,” she said, ”perhaps I can excuse you to the others, who haven't deserted us But we turn down here and you had better go a few yards in front”
Following the directions she gave him, he presently crossed a square and entered a street where a diht burned A arette, and Walthew's heart beat fast as he saw him
”Graha his coht I'd better wait here Silva can't let us have the mules”
Walthew understood his brevity: there was no time for questions and explanations
Grahame took off his hat as Blanca joined them
”I must see Silva Wait in the shadow,” she said, and moved quickly away
The men stood silent They hadfrom the town occupied their ely quiet after the girl's footsteps died away, but indistinct cries ca Walthew looked about sharply in tense i, and Blanca did not return At last, however, she calooive us the mules,” she said ”The Governuard the stable”
”Then we et away on foot,” Grahaot some of your friends to hide you?”
”No,” she said; ”I must take my father some news I have picked up, and Gomez will leave no place unsearched when he learns that I have been here I think we shall be out of danger if we can reach a house I know”