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"You looked round you but now and san; "I would to God it were! I would I felt its

ht! But I cannot I

cannot as much as hear a whisper All the heavens are dumb," he cried

"And the earth waits," said Clean They both sat still as statues

They had coe of posture,

a gesture, an assuht avert the sue, they both knew to be futile It was

in the mind of each of them that somehoithout their participation the

truth would out that night; for the daas so long in coan, suddenly, "I strove to nominy, the odium, the scandal"

"But you could not," said Cleh that inability was a thing familiar to her

"When I reached the hut, and saw that fan of light spreading froart, I resmarck I tried to hear the h the ," he cried, "stretched out upon that

couch, supple and young and sweet I saw the laold in its dark brown I could only rehts wakened and reached out my hands in the vain

dream that they would meet in its thick coils, that I should feel its