X. FORCE 115 XI. STRATEGY 136 XII. IN THE RAIN 150 XIII. THE DAY OF WRATH 170 XIV. HER ENEMY 174 XV. IN CONFIDENCE 176 XVI. THE FOREST LISTENS 196 XVII. HER FIRST CAMPAIGN 217 XVIII. LESSE FOREST 226 XIX. THE LIAR 248 XX. BEFORE DINNER 257 XXI. SNIPERS 271 XXII. DRIVEN GAME 288 XXIII. CANDLE LIGHT 299 XXIV. A PERSONAL AFFAIR 315 XXV. WHO GOES THERE! 326 XXVI. AMICUS DEI 338 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "Who goes there!" _Frontispiece_ "'If you'll say you'll do it, ... I'll not have those men shot'" 20 "There came a light, soft touch on his ring-finger" 52 "The chauffeur hit him ... two heavy, merciless blows, hurling him senseless across the stairs" 68 "'Kervyn! Kervyn--Think what you are doing!--'" 120 "Standing so beside the pool, breathing the incense of the roses, she thought of the dream" 276 "The Pulpit resounded with the rifle-fire of its little garrison" 296 "The impact hurled von Reiter against the table" 318 "And last of all came Karen with Guild on foot beside her" 336 WHO GOES THERE! CHAPTER I IN THE MIST They had selected for their business the outer face of an old garden wall. There were red tiles on the coping; dusty roadside vines half covered the base. Where plaster had peeled off a few weather-beaten bricks showed. Bees hummed in the trampled herbage. Against this wall they backed the first six men. One, a mere boy, was crying, wiping his frightened eyes on his shirt-sleeve.