At any moment they might be held up and subjected to scrutiny and questioning, and Archie experienced a tingle at the prospect; but the Governor had declared with apparent sincerity that he had never been in jail and this in itself was reassuring, for presumably a man who so keenly enjoyed his freedom was a skilled dodger of the law. The Governor, who would have passed anywhere for a successful banker or lawyer, had more of the spirit of the debonair swashbucklers of romance than any other man Archie had known. He might be a great liar, and Archie suspected that he was; and doubts of the man's sanity troubled him not a little; but it sufficed for the moment that his comrade was steering him rapidly away from Bailey Harbor, and so far had managed the business with excellent judgment. Occasionally the Governor lifted his voice in songs of unimpeachable literary and musical quality that rang sonorously above the hum of the engine. "Who is Sylvia? What is she? That all our swains commend her," he sang through to the end to the old familiar air; followed by "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes." They struck a stretch of road under repair and slowing up the Governor remarked carelessly as he picked his way through a line of red lanterns: "Speaking of women, my dear Archie, do you share the joy of the lyric poets in the species?" "Women?" gulped Archie, as surprised as though he had been asked suddenly his opinion of the _gazella dorcas_. "The same, Archie. It occurs to me that you have probably had many affairs. A fellow of your coolness and dash couldn't fail to appeal to the incomprehensible sex. I'm thirty-four but I've loved only one woman--that's the solemn truth, Archie. Occasionally small indiscretions, I confess; and I sometimes weakly yield to the temptation to flirt, but with my hand on my heart I declare solemnly that only once have I ever been swayed by the grand passion. And strange as it may seem she's a bishop's daughter, though a saint in her own right! O wonderful! O sublime!" This confidence, vague as to the identity and habitat of the lady of the Governor's adoration, nevertheless made it incumbent upon Archie to make some sort of reply. The Governor would probably be disappointed in him if he confessed the meagerness of his experiences, and he felt that it would be a grave error to jeopardize his standing with his companion. "Well, I'm in the same boat," he answered glibly. "There's only one girl for me!" "Magnificent!" cried the Governor. "I hope she's not beyond your reach like my goddess?" "Well, I'll hardly say that," Archie replied. "But there are difficulties, embarrassments, you know." "Possibly your choice of the open road as a career is a bar to marriage? Such situations are always deplorable." "It is quite the other way round with me," Archie protested. "It was she who put me up to it!"