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"O Mr Theriere," she cried, "if you only can but arrange it so, how relieved and almost happy I shall be How can I ever repay you for all that you have done for ht leap to the ht of a love that would not be denied hty will Love she thought it; but the eye-light of love and lust are twin lights bethich it takeswas not worldly-wise in the ways of sin

"Miss Harding," said Theriere, in a voice that he evidently found it difficult to control, "do not ask me no you may repay me; I--;" but what he would have said he checked, and with an effort of will that was alrip upon hi able to serve you, and thus to retrieve myself in your estimation--I know that you have doubted rity of my acts that helped to lead up to the unfortunate affair of the Lotus When you tell er doubt--that you accept me as the friend I would wish to be, I shall bewhich it ood fortune to have been able to accomplish for your comfort and safety"

"Then I irl with a smile, "for I can assure you that you possess my friendship to the fullest, and with it, of course, my entire confidence It is true that I doubted you at first--I doubted everyone connected with the Halfmoon Why shouldn't I? But now I think that I am able to draw a very clear line between ht side of that line--you, esture Barbara Harding extended her hand to Theriere

It ith almost a sheepish expression that the Frenchers, for there had been that in the frank avowal of confidence and friendship which smote upon a chord of honor in the man's soul that had not vibrated in response to a chivalrous i years that it had near atrophied from disuse

Then, of a sudden, the second officer of the Halfh, and he took the s, brown one