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He als would happen As he stood there, listening, waiting, the thought became almost a prayer He had Pelly's revolver Within twenty seconds he could have Kedsty looking down the barrel of it The night was ideal for escape Within half an hour they would be on the river They could even load up with provisions from Kedsty's place He opened the door a littlean effort to coer, or she would not have confessed to him that she was in the house of a man ould like to see her dead Why she was there did not interest hi hiain, and Kent's body grew rigid He heard Kedsty charging through the lower hall like a one

Kent drew back into the darkness of his roo slowly up the stairs She seeh there was a dih the door into the blackness of her room

"Jeems," she whispered

He went to her Her hands reached out, and again they rested on his arms

"You--you didn't come down the stair?"

"No"

"You--didn't hear?"

"I heard no words Only Kedsty's voice"

It seeain, treood, Jeelad"

In that darkness he could not see Yet so his pulse with a thing to which his eyes were blind He bent down He found her lips upturned, offering him the sweetness of the kiss which was to be his reward; and as he felt their warhtest pressure of her hands upon his arain," she said then