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in the deep feeling of the moment, "tell me what the trouble is"

"I suppose you thinkthat," she blurted

out, without looking up "It wasn't ladylike or nice, but--but I

simply could n't help it, Lieutenant Brant"

"You mean your sudden determination to carry ht prove the entire difficulty

"Don't let that worry you Why, I ao Do you knoanted to request the privilege all

the tiether But you acted so differently from

ere beneath the vines that I actually lost limpse into her unveiled eyes

"I did not wish you to ask me"

"What?" He stopped suddenly "Why then did you make such an

announcement to Mrs Herndon?"

"Oh, that was different," she explained, uneasily "I had to do that;

I had to trust you to help o ho eyes around over the deserted night scene, not

knohat answer to return to so strange an avowal "Was that what

caused you to appear so distant to me in the hall, so vastly different

from what you had been before?"