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they two separated from the rest of the world by aters, was like a

brief experience of Paradise Ellery watched the light tendril of hair

that touched her cheek, lifted itself and touched again, near that

lovely curve above her ear The cheek arm and creamy but untouched

by deeper color He fell into that mood of blessed silence that, as a

rule, comes only when one is solitary

As they rounded at the dock he came back to himself with a sudden wonder

if she had missed the titillation of Dick's chatter, for she had been as

silent as he

"I'm afraid I have been very dull I enjoyed ot to try to amuse you"

"It's been a heavenly sail, exactly to h that filled hi what a coh so that I

didn't have to talk It's a test of comradeship, isn't it?"

As they smiled at each other, his heart leaped with the consciousness of

a bond below the surface

He treasured this cruardly,

but because there was little that belonged to him and to him alone

Sometimes, in the rush and roar of the office, came the memory of her

eyes and her voice of assurance