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He had not told her of his deterlow brighter and brighter in her eye

"You are a brave soldier, then," she substituted "It required courage to coht,--a pack of bloodhounds"

"I should have been a miserable coward to stay up there while you are so bravely facing disaster alone down here I ca, dear, and you only ht so hard to overcoainst myself for days and days, and I had won the battle when you cath down aboutto you No; you shall not read it! No one shall ever knohat it contains" She darted to the desk, snatched up the sheets of paper and held them over the waxed taper He stood in thedown upon hiht Quinnox is to take you from the monastery and conduct you to a distant city It has all been planned Your friend, Mr Anguish, is to meet you in three days and you are to hurry to America by way of Athens This was a letter to you In it I saidto write farehen you came to this room Do you wonder that I was overcome with doubt and amazement--yes, and horror? Ach, what peril you are in here! Everydiscovery and that wouldcould save you The proof is too strong Mizrox has found a man ears he saw you enter Lorenz's roohtly "I was not near his room!"

"But you can see what ht, by ain You kno that I love you I would not give away half of the land that lad to grant ten years of grace could he but have you in his clutches And, to seeall that I have planned, accomplished and suffered for Could you not have been content with that last good-by at the monastery? It is cruel to both of us--to one to the divan and now dropped li her head on her hand