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Then, with a sudden glad little cry, she carace down to the road

Saht As he

saw her co he stretched out his arms and his voice broke from his

throat in a half-hoarse, passionate cry: "Sally!"

It was the only word he could have spoken just then, but it was all

that was necessary It told her everything It was an outburst frorope after speech, the cry of a man for

the One Woman who alone can call forth an inflection more eloquent than

phrases and poetry And, as she caht and direct as a horip that held her straining to hi her in

the tempest of his emotion

For a time, there was no speech, but to each of the raphy of heart-beats tells enough Later, they would talk, but

noith a gloriously wild sense of being together, with a mutual

intoxication of joy because all that they had dreamed was true, and all

that they had feared was untrue, they stood there under the skies

clasping each other--with the rifle between their breasts Then as he

held her close, he wondered that a shadow of doubt could ever have

existed He wondered if, except in sohtmare of hallucination, it