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A sudden wave of delight, a sudden rush of blood through his veins,

swept before it and away for that tile and

his resolution to renounce her All that was left was the irresistible

storm of inized hiazed at hi joy written on her

face, that he would have swept her into his arms, but for her quick

recovery and retreat In shelter behind the exedra she halted, fended

froazed across its back at her with all

the love of his deter in his eyes

"You! You!" she cried

"But you!" he cried back at her across the exedra

The preposterousness of their greetings appealed to thehed He started around the exedra; she ed "I want only to touch--your hand"

Shyly, she let him take both of her hands, and he lifted them in spite

of her little show of resistance and kissed theht have saved ourselves farewells and journeyed together," he

said blithely

"But I thought you had gone back to Ephesus," she said

"What! After you had tolda knife wound in a sheep hovel in the hills since an hour

after I saw you last"

Her lips parted and her face grew grave, deeply corieved If there remained any weakness in his frame before that

ain He

found hiht