"With everything. I think Congress will fail to realize its boasts, and Arnold is a huge pretender, and----" "He has lost favor with the people." "Lost it? He never had it from the day he arrived. People do not like that sort of thing." Anderson watched him intently and Marjorie watched Anderson. "He may resign for a command in the army. I have heard it said that he dislikes his office." "Would to God he did! Or else go over to the other side." Anderson's head turned--the least little fraction--so that Marjorie could see the flash light up his eyes. "He could not desert the cause now without becoming a traitor." A pause followed. "Men of lofty patriotism often disagree in the manner of political action. We have many Loyalists among us." "Yet they are not patriots." "No! They are not, viewed from our standpoint. But every colony has a different motive in the war. Now that some have obtained their rights, they are satisfied with the situation. I don't know but that we would be as well off if the present state of affairs were allowed to stand." "What do the Catholics of the Colonies think?" This was a bold question, yet he ventured to ask it. "We would fare as well with England as with some of our own," answered Marjorie decisively. Anderson looked at her for a minute. "Never!" replied Mr. Allison with emphasis. "See how Canada fared," insisted Marjorie. "Tush!" Anderson listened attentively. Here was a division of opinion within the same family; the father intensely loyal, the daughter somewhat inclined to analysis. A new light was thrown upon her from this very instant which afforded him a very evident satisfaction, a very definite and conscious enjoyment as well. To have discovered this mind of apparent candor and unaffected breadth was of supreme import to him at this critical moment. And he felt assured that he had met with a character of more than ordinary self-determination which might, if tuned properly, display a capacity for prodigious possibilities, for in human nature he well knew the chord of self-interest to be ever responsive to adequate and opportune appeal. Marjorie might unconsciously prove advantageous to him. It was essential for the maturing of his plans to obtain Catholic cooperation. She was a devout adherent and had been, insofar as he had been able to discover, an ardent Whig. True, he had but few occasions to study her, nevertheless today had furnished him with an inkling which gave her greater breadth in his eyes than he was before conscious of. The remark just made might indicate that she favored foreign rule in the interest of religious toleration, yet such a declaration was by no means decisive. Still he would labor to this end in the hope that she might ultimately see her way clear to cooperate with him in his designs. "We are losing vast numbers through the Alliance," volunteered Anderson.