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"Were the letters he bears destroyed--"

"The letters?"

"Yes, were the letters destroyed," La Tribe answered relentlessly, "he

could do nothing! Nothing! Without that authority theAnd men and women and

children--men and woeance, perhaps for vengeance on us who ht have saved the eye And with an all-

eesture he seemed to call to witness the open heavens, the

sunshine and the summer breeze which wrapped them round "Will live!"

She drew a deep breath "And you have brought me here," she said, "to

ask me to do this?"

"I was sent here to ask you to do this"

"Why me? Why me?" she wailed, and she held out her open hands to him,

her face wan and colourless "You come to me, a woman! Why to me?"

"You are his wife!"

"And he is , the pitiless answer "You,

and you alone, have the opportunity of doing this"

She gazed at him in astonishment "And it is you who say that?" she

faltered, after a pause "You who made us one, who now bid me betray

him, whom I have sworn to love? To ruin him whom I have sworn to

honour?"