To satisfy her if possible, he had confided, as he
said, the fact that certain money for which Lieutenant Field was
accountable, had been stolen. The cash had been carefully placed in his
old-fashioned safe; the missing money, therefore, had been taken while
still virtually in his charge. "They might even suspect me," he said,
which she knew would not be the case. "They forbade my speaking of it to
anybody, but I simply had to tell you." She felt sure there was
something he was concealing; something he would not tell her; something
concerning Nanette, therefore, because she so loved Nanette, he shrank
from revealing what might wound her. Indeed, it was best that Nanette
should go for the time, at least, but Mrs. Hay little dreamed that
others would be saying--even this kindly, gentle woman before her--that
Nanette should have stayed until certain strange things were thoroughly
and satisfactorily explained.
But the moment she began, faltering not a little, to speak of matters
at the post, as a means of leading up to Nanette--matters concerning
Lieutenant Field and his financial affairs,--to her surprise Mrs. Dade
gently uplifted her hand and voice. "I am going to ask you not to tell
me, Mrs.
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