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"And doth it affright you, Damaris?"

"No, Martin, for God is all-s, our hopes and fears, how small our joys and sorrows!"

"Aye, truly, truly!" quoth I

"But," says she, leaning towards aze uplifted to the starry heavens, "He who htsthe ive thanks unto the Lord for He is good, for His e methinks we ain, I for one being very full of troublesoht and perplexity, and the sum of it this, viz, whether a woman, cast alone on a desolate island with a man such as I, had need to fear hiot me another speculation, to wit: Whether ain love with one another? Finding no answer to this either, I turned, half-minded to put the question to my co in the light of the fire, her face half-hid 'neath a tress of shining hair; and I viewing her, chin in fist, saw in her only the last of her hated race and knew in that ht of true love, that pure passion, high and ennobling, the which ht this be 'twixt her blood and reat doubt and fear of reat lights" set there by the hand of God; and spake thus within myself: "Lord God," quoth I, "Since love is not nor ever shall be 'twixt this my companion and me, do Thou protect her from the devil within me, do Thou aid me to keep the oath I sware in Thy na and was uponall my oaths and resolutions, yielded hed, turned and, throwing her arm out it chanced that her hand ca at her touch, seized this hand and caught it to ers and the round, soft arm above I felt her start, heard her breath catch in a sob, but, in my madness I swept her tofiercely against les ceased and I heard her breath coh