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When Graydon Bansemer opened his eyes upon the world for the second tiain--he looked up into the eager, wistful face of Jane Cable It was too much for her to expect that he could see and understand at once; he would not knohat had gone before, nor why she was there His feeble glance took in her face with lifeless interest Perhaps it was because he had seen her in that death-like dream; perhaps his weakness kept him from true realisation In any event, he did no more than to allow the flicker of a sain Breathlessly, she waited for the lids to lift once ain As if hearing soain looked upward, the consciousness of pain in his grey eyes This tihter and then darkened onder At last she saw the look of surprise and joy and relief that she had been hungering for; he knew her and he was beginning to understand
If he heard her while she knelt and thanked Ged for this first great ray of hope, he gave forth no sign When she turned her eyes to his face again he was asleep But she went forth into the day with a song in her heart
She looked about for Teresa The girl was gone, no one knehither Bray alone could say that she had started toward the thicket He pointed out the direction, but did not offer to accoood news to the Spanish girl who had been her staunch helper during the long vigil Bray shook his puzzled head as he followed her with his gaze It had coirl was not the solution to the puzzle, after all
Jane found the sliround, deep in the wood She had been crying and irl came up to her; instead, she bitterly poured out her woe into the ears of the other She told her of Bray's insult--as she termed his unfortunate speculation--and she told how it cairl, Miss Cable," she cried "I am of a noble family-not of the canaille You do not believe it of ht to accuse me I was a prisoner; Senor Bansemer was my rescuer I loved him for it See, I cannot help it, I cannot hide it from you But he is yours I have no claim I do not ask it Oh!" and here her voice rose to a wail of anguish, "can you not procure sos are intolerable I hate theo back there unless I have---"