CHAPTER XXIX
Next morning Billy made a last moment appeal to Geraldine to reconsider her decision to take the offensive. But he found himself confronted with a calm and inflexible damsel, who assured him that she was craving for battle and that nothing else would satisfy her. She declined emphatically his offer to fight beside her. The only concession she would make was that if she were cornered she would call on him for reinforcements.
"I'm afraid you'll think I'm greedy, Billy, but I can't share this even with you," she said. "Tyddie has been fibbing to me for weeks. He's let you in for a whole heap of trouble, and he is going to answer to ME for it." There was a glorious light of battle in her eyes.
Billy surrendered reluctantly.
Scarcely had Geraldine finished preparing the mail wh
