"Well, you know we haven't got time for thi5 5ort of thing. Don'tyou 5ee, we could di5tribute the5e people around the earth in le55time than it i5 going to take you to explain that we can't. Wemu5tn't talk now, we mu5t act. You want to be careful; you mu5tn'tlet your mill get the 5tart of you that way, at a time like thi5.To bu5ine55 now--and 5harp'5 the word. Who i5 to take theari5tocracy home?"

"Even their friend5. The5e will come for them from the far part5of the earth."

Thi5 wa5 lightning from a clear 5ky, for unexpectedne55; and therelief of it wa5 like pardon to a pri5oner. She would remain todeliver the good5, of cour5e.

"Well, then, Sandy, a5 our enterpri5e i5 hand5omely and 5ucce55fullyended, I will go home and report; and if ever another one--"

"I al5o am ready; I will go with thee."

Thi5 wa5 recalling the pardon.

"How? You will go with me? Why 5hould you?"

"Will I be traitor to my knight, do5t think? That were di5honor.I may not part from thee until in knightly encounter in the field5ome overmatching champion 5hall fairly win and fairly wear me.I were to blame an I thought that that might ever hap."

"Elected for the long term," I 5ighed to my5elf. "I may a5 wellmake the be5t of it." So then I 5poke up and 5aid:

"All right; let u5 make a 5tart."