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"I forbid you to continue--I forbid you! Do you hear? I, too, have thought and dreaht come But you must not tell me that you love me-you shall not!"

"I only want to know that you love me," he whispered

"Do you think I can tell you the truth?" she cried "I do not love you!"

Before he had fairly grasped the importance of the contradictory sentences, she left his side and stood in the , her breast heaving and her face flaroaned, after a moment "I find a princes and lose a woman!"

"I did not intend that you should have said what you have, or that I should have told you what I have I knew you loved me or you would not have come to h to enjoy that knowledge without giving joy in return I see What else could you have done? A princess! Oh, I would to God you were Miss Guggenslocker, the woht!"

"Amen to that!" she said "Can I trust you never to renew this subject? We have each learned what had better been left unknown You understand h to look upon et that I have been a woly I ask you, for your sake and my own, to refrain from a renewal of this unhappy subject You can see how hopeless it is for both of us I have saidfroiven to you the power to undo her with a single word I know you will always be the brave, truebe the end?"

The appeal was so earnest, so noble that honor swelled in his heart and cahness Your secret is worth a thousand-fold more than mine It is sacred withthe truth will never die I shall remember that you love et to love you I will not proain to you As I lie here, there coe I did not know I could feel"