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I turned to the King's ward She had risen from the chair, and now stood in the centre of the room, one hand at her bosom, the other clenched at her side, her head thrown up She looked as she had looked at Weyanoke, that first night

"Madam," I said under my breath

She turned her face upon me "Did you think," she asked in a low, even voice,--"did you think that I would ever set my foot upon that ship,--that ship on the river there? One ship brought me here upon a shameful errand; another shall not take me upon one more shaleaht She laid it on the table, but kept her hand upon it "You will choose for me, sir," she declared

I went to the door and looked out "It is a wild night," I said "I can suit it with as wild an enterprise Make a bundle of your war, ela?"

"No," she answered "I will not have her peril too upon er, the large tears welled into her eyes and fell slowly over her white cheeks "It is for mine honor, sir," she said "I know that I ask your death"

I could not bear to see her weep, and so I spoke roughly "I have told you before," I said, "that your honor is ht, in the hold of the Santa Teresa, knowing that my wife supped with my Lord Carnal?"

I crossed the roohtpressed her lips upon it "You have been very good to rate"

Five minutes later she came from her own roo in her hand I extinguished the torches, then opened the door As we crossed the threshold, we paused as by one impulse and looked back into the firelit warmth of the room; then I closed the door softly behind us, and ent out into the night