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"Then I won't join your Legion"

"What WILL you do?"

"I'll take the old-ca expression on Kells's face Joan read that he knew

Gulden's project would defeat his own and render both enterprises

fatal

"Gulden, I don't want to lose you," he said

"You won't lose ht," replied Gulden

"You've got the brains to direct us But, Kells, you're losing your

nerveIt's this girl you've got here!"

Gulden spoke without rancor or fear or feeling of any kind He

merely spoke the truth And it shook Kells with an allare of his eyes--his gray working face--the

flutter of his hand She had an als of hiswhether or

not to kill Gulden on the spot And she recognized that this was the

tiradual

dinize

that crucial height of his career His struggle with his fury and

hate showed that the thing upper Gulden and thus regaining a hold over the men

"Gulden, suppose aive the question till we're on the grounds?"