Page 113 (1/1)

On the floor was a pack only half as large as Kent's and when he picked it up, he found it of alht He fastened it to his own pack while Marette put on her raincoat and went down the stair ahead of hi, when he ca rubber slicker in her hands

"You htly as she held the garone from her cheeks, as she faced the door beyond which the dead loas still in her eyes as she helped Kent with his pack and the slicker and afterward stood for an instant with her hands touching his breast and her lips as if about to speak so which she held back

A few steps beyond thealow in a new fury, beating at the door, crashing over their heads in thunder, daring theht

In darkness he opened the door Rain and wind swept in With his free hand he groped out, found Marette, drew her after hihted hall into the storulfed and s, and he saw Marette's face, white and drenched, but looking at hilow in her eyes It thrilled him Even in the darkness it was there It had been there since he had returned to her from Kedsty and had knelt at her bedside, with his arms about her for a moment

Only now, in the beat of the storm, did an answer to the miracle of it come to him It was because of HIM It was because of his FAITH in her Even death and horror could not keep it from her eyes He wanted to cry out the joy of his discovery, to give wild voice to it in the teeth of the wind and the rain He felt sweeping through hiht Her hands were on his ar hi of theh which came a warm thrill of electrical life He put out his arm and drew her to hiainst the top of her wet little turban