Here the matter rested; and, having done what she conceived to be her
charitable duty, Virginia was as anxious to get away as heart--the
heart of a slightly bored Reverend Billy, for instance--could wish.

So they bade Adams good-by and picked their way down the frozen
embankment and across the ice-bridge; down and across and back to the
Rosemary, where they found a perturbed chaperon in a flutter of
solicitude arising upon their mysterious disappearance and long
absence.

"It may be just as well not to tell any of them where we have been,"
said Virginia in an aside to her cousin. And so the incident of
tea-drinking in the enemy's camp was safely put away like a little
personal note in its envelop with the flap gummed down.




VI

THE RAJAH GIVES AN ORDER


While Adams was dispensing commissary tea in iron-stone china cups to
his two guests in the "dinkey" field office, his chief, taking the
Rosemary's night run in reverse in the company of Town-Marshal Biggin,
was turning the Rajah's coup into a small Utah profit.

Having come upon the ground late the night before, and from the