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Haward raised his eyes to hers that were quiet, alh

darkly shadowed by past pain "I will tell you, Evelyn Why should not I

tell you this, also? Four days ago, upon ht and found the woman that I love,--the woman that, by all that is

best within me, I love worthily! She shrank from me; she listened not; she

shut eye and ear, and fled And I,--confident fool!--I thought, 'To-o When the one indeed" He halted, esture of distress, then

went on, rapidly and with agitation: "There was a boatsteadily up the river But for this I

should have thought--I should have feared--God knohat I should not

have feared! As it is I have searchers out, both on this side and on the

southern shore An Indian and myself have come up river in his canoe We

have not found her yet If it be so that she has passed unseen through the

settled country, I will seek her toward the mountains"

"And when you have found her, what then, sir?" cried the Colonel, tapping

his snuffbox

"Then, sir," answered Haith hauteur, "she will becoain to Evelyn, but when he spoke it was less to her than to

hi on, and at the fall of