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"And you are today just what you hen you went out to die for Mary Tatman," cried Kent "The saain today for her?"

A stifled cry caers' lips "My God, yes, Kent--I would!"

"And that's why I wanted you, of all ers," Kent went on swiftly "To you, of all the men on earth, I wanted to tell iveup this htto say? I don't want you to think of it as a subterfuge on ers, is it inspiration? Listen, and telltiers listened, the soul within hi itself back into fierce life, de which it had once possessed, but which it had lost It was not the lazy, ers who sat in the cell with Kent In hi slumber, and the thrill of it pounded in his blood Two-Fisted Fingers they had called hiers in this hour with Kent Twice Father Layonne came to the head of the cell alcove, but turned back when he heard the low and steadydid Kent keep hidden, and when he had finished, so that was like the fire of a revelation had coers' face

"My God!" he breathed deeply "Kent, I've been sitting down there on s have co like this Oh, if it wasn't for this accursed flesh of mine!"

He jumped from his chair hed as he had not laughed in all that tireat ar his ht when that happened up there, and I'rown old I'll do it, Kent! I'll do it, if I hang for it!"

Kent fairly leaped upon hiers! Look! Look at that!" He pulled Fingers to the little , and together they looked out upon the river, shiloriously under a sun-filled sky of blue "Two thousandstraight through the heart of that world we both have known! No, you're not old, Fingers The things you used to know are calling you again, as they are calling hosts--and realities!"