Fraide has only now received the news--which cannot be overrated.
It gives the precise lever necessary for the big move at the
reassembling." He spoke with great earnestness and unusual
haste. As he finished he took a step forward. "But that's not
all!" he added. "Fraide wants the great move set in motion by
a great speech--and he has asked me to make it."
For a moment Eve waited. She looked at him in silence; and in
that silence he read in her eyes the reflection of his own
expression.
"And you?" she asked, in a suppressed voice. "What answer did
you give?"
He watched her for an instant, taking a strange pleasure in
her flushed face and brilliantly eager eyes; then the joy of
conscious strength, the sense of opportunity regained, swept
all other considerations out of sight.
"I accepted," he said, quickly. "Could any man who was merely
human have done otherwise?"
That was Loder's attitude and action on the night of his
jeopardy and his success, and the following day found his mood
unchanged.
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