oh, I can lie with the Pathan, to the Pathan — but I can’t deceive a man like Great Heart. I’d prefer going right up to him and saying: ‘Dick, I love your wife. She loves me. What are you going to do about it?’“

“Do so,” Paula said, fired for the moment.

Graham straightened up with resolution.

“I will. And now.”

“No, no,” she cried in sudden panic. “You must go away.” Again her voice trailed off, as she said, “But I can’t let you go.”

If Dick had had any reason to doubt his suspicion of the state of Paula’s heart, that reason vanished with the return of Graham.