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Barbara sahat she had feared, but she saw too so hope--a look of honest love, or could she be mistaken? And thethat he loved her, and he saw the plea for pity and protection in thehten hed at such a plea Doubtless, too, he would have struck the girl in the face for her resistance He did neither nohich spoke volu place within him, but neither did he relax his hold upon her, or take his burning eyes froh the turbulent, shallow river to clamber up the bank onto the island In his soul the battle still raged, but he had by no irl Fear, nuirl's eyes now The mucker read it there as plain as print, and had she not said that she was frightened? That hat he had wanted to accohten her He would have enjoyed the sight, but he had not been able to accohtened--she had adave the mucker no pleasure--on the contrary it made him unaccountably uncomfortable

And then came the last straw--tears welled to those lovely eyes A choking sob wracked the girl's fra to trust you so!" she cried

They had reached the top of the bank, now, and the le grass beneath a great tree Slowly he lowered her to her feet The ripped hi the evil that had predominated before

Theriere's words caood care of Miss Harding," and his ad that last conversation with the dying uess I was a coward Dere seems to be ht kind, I guess"

He had been standing with eyes upon the ground, his heavy hand still gripping the girl's arreat eyes upon his filled with fear and questioning, like a prisoner before the bar awaiting the sentence of her judge