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"I have," I said "Once I lay upon a field of battle throughout a summer day, sore wounded and with et the horror of that lost field and the toret the thirst"

"You think there is no hope?"

"What hope should there be?"

He was silent Presently he turned and looked at the King's here she lay in the rosy light; then his eyes came back to mine

"If it comes to the worst I shall put her out of her torment," I said

He bowed his head and we sat in silence, our gaze upon the ground between us, listening to the low thunder of the surf and the crackling of the fire "I love her," I said at last "God help er to his lips She had stirred and opened her eyes I knelt beside her, and asked her how she did and if she wanted aught

"It is warly

"You are no longer in the boat," I told her "You are safe upon the land You have been sleeping here by the fire that we kindled"

An exquisite sain "I am so tired," she said drowsily, "that I will sleep a little longer Will you bring me some water, Captain Percy? I aet it, madam" She made no answer; she was already asleep Nor did Sparrow and I speak again He laid himself doith his face to the ocean, and I sat with ht, to no purpose