But even now I shall not get the credit;
_he_ will have that. It was a low, scurrilous thing to do; for he was my
commanding officer, and I could not say No."
"I gave you the option," blurted out Michael sullenly.
Jem took no notice of the interruption, which only had the effect of
making Mark Ruthine move up a few paces nearer.
"He made a great point of secrecy," continued Agar, "which at the time I
thought to be for my safety. But now I see otherwise; Ruthine has pointed
it out to me. If I had never come back he would have said nothing, and
would thus have escaped the odium of having sent a man to certain death.
I only made one condition--namely, that three persons should be informed
at once of my survival, after the disaster to Stevenor's force. Those
three persons were my brother Arthur, my step-mother, and Miss Glynde."
He paused for a moment, and Dora's clear, low voice took up the
narrative.
"I met General Michael," she said, "in London, some months ago. I met him
more than once.
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