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As they rode at a walk along the little shred of road left to thean, "she waited for me, all those years What I was

helped to do by such splendid friends as you and your brother and

Wilfred, she was back here trying to do for herself I told you back

there the night before I left that I was afraid to let s toward you Do you remember?"

She

"You were very complimentary, Samson," she told hi"

"No," he said firmly, "it was not the moon I have since thenfor you is the best that a man can

have, the honest worship of friendship And," he added, "I have

analyzed your feeling for me, too, and, thank God! I have that same

friendship from you Haven't I?"

For a moment, she only nodded; but her eyes were bent on the road

ahead of her The man waited in tense silence Then, she raised her

face, and it was a face that smiled with the serenity of one who has

wakened out of a troubled dream

"You will always have that, Sah of it, to ask you to do for her what you did for ht to know?"