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I have no other fear to-night than that I shall outlive your love for me"

"I will love you until the stars fall," he said

"They are falling to-night When you are without the door look up, and you

may see one pass swiftly down the sky Once I watched therows old," he said "Through life and

death, through heaven or hell, past the beating of my heart, while lasts

my soul! Audrey, Audrey!"

"If it is so," she answered, "then all is well Now kiss 's voice You will coht I shall see only you, think of only

you while I play! Good-night, good-night"

They kissed and parted, and Haward, a happy h the stillness and theat Marot's

ordinary No phantoht disturbed him He had found the

philosopher's stone, had drunk of the divine elixir Life was at last a

thing ood, and the summum

bonum was deathless love