LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


"She faced him, white as death, looking at him blindly"

"So he sat there and told her all about his commission"

"Never had he tasted such a heavenly banquet"

"Examining the pile of plans, reports, and blue-prints"

"She walked a few paces toward the house, halted, and looked
back audaciously"

"Then fell prone, head buried in her tumbled hair"

"'You can't go!' he said"

"And locked in his embrace, she lifted her lips to his"




CHAPTER I

A SKIRMISH


As the wind veered and grew cooler a ribbon of haze appeared above the
Gulf-stream.