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"There was one like a wall shutting out the sun when he went down,"

answered Audrey "It was black and griht flared like a fire

behind it And there was the one above which the er to heaven, and I liked it best Do you re up behind the pine-trees? We sat on the dark

hillside watching it, and you told her and the "

Haward remembered not, but he said that he did so "The ht I heard a e to-roes shall row us

up and down the river--you and me and Mistress Deborah--between the sunset

and the moonrise Then it is lonely and sweet upon the water The roses

can be sbirds

we shall have h, was silver-clear and sweet, like that of a forest nyain, with all her half-formed doubts and

fears allayed They had never been of hireen and swaying fountain of the , and tis Too soon came the slave to call theh spent in the company of Darden and his wife, passed too

soon; too soon ca shadows of the afternoon and Haward's call

for his horse

Audrey watched hiht was in her eyes She did

not know that it was so That night, in her bare little room, when the

candle was out, she kneeled by theand looked at the stars There

was one very fair and golden, an eht "That is the

princess," said Audrey, and sht, scarce free from the murk of the horizon, shone a little star,

coht "And that is I," said Audrey, and smiled upon

herself