rl, lost in a strange world, but resolved
upon courage. She saw more than the men could see. She saw the
loveliness, the helplessness, and she saw too the sensitive dignity,
the delicate, defensive spirit....

Really, she was a child.

And to have gone through so much, dared such danger.... She
remembered that dark, forbidding palace, the guarded doors, the
hideous blacks--and that bright, smiling figure in its misty
veil.... And now that little figure sat in its strange hiding place,
confronting her with a lost child's eyes....

Into Jinny's bright gray eyes came a mist of tears. She was queerly
moved. It was a mingled emotion, but if some drops for her own
disconcertment were mingled with the warm prompting of pity, her
compassion was none the less true.

"I'll be so glad to do anything I can to help," she said
impulsively. "If you have no friends to trust in Cairo--"

"I have no friends to trust--beyond this room," said the girl.

"Then I'll take you to the hotel with me. You can register as one of
our party and keep your room till we leave--we are going in four
days now. And, oh, I know! You can cross on the same steamer with us
to Europe, for there's a woman at the hotel who wants to give up her
transportation and go on to the Holy Land--she was moaning about it
only this noon. It would all fit in beautifully."

It seemed to McLean that an angel from Heaven was revealing her
blessed goodness.

Ryder took the revelation delightedly for granted.

"Bully for you, Jinny," he said warmly. "I knew I could count on
you."

If for one moment a twinge of wry reminder recalled that she had
never been able exactly to count upon him it did not dim his mood.
He was alight with triumph.

"I'll see to the transportation," he said quickly, doing mental
arithmetic about present sums in the bank. "And we won't wire your
aunt until you're safely out of Egypt--better send a wireless from
the ship. I think your aunt is near Paris--"

"We are going to hurry to Paris," said Jinny, "That was our regular
plan--"

"And London?" said McLean.

"London, later, of course. Cathedrals, lakes and universities--then
London."

"I shall be in London," said McLean thoughtfully, "in June.... If
you are not too occupied--"

"With cathedrals?" said Miss Jeffries.

"Where are the things?" demanded Ryder ruthlessly, and thus
recalled, Jinny produced the bag.

McLean moved toward the door. "We might go and mount guard in the
corrid