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"Barry, what is it--for heaven's sake speak! Do you think I have been blind all these ?" her voice, quivering with eh to recall hihtened slowly and dreay fro I can tell you," he replied dully, "nothing that I can explain, only this--I went through hell in Japan I don't want any sy Just now I uard, your words startled "

He made an abrupt movement as if to leave the room but Miss Craven stood squarely in front of him, her chin raised stubbornly She kne that she was face to face with soined He had avoided a definite answer By all reasoning she should have accepted his rebuff but intuition, stronger than reason, impelled her If he went noould be the end She knew that positively The question could never be opened up again She could not let it pass without a final effort It was inconceivable that this shadow could always lie across his life Whatever tragical event had occurred belonged to the past--surely the future ht coht the silver threads that gleamed in his thick dark hair Surely in the care for another life ht dawn for hiestive words her trust in him was still maintained; she had no fear for Gillian--with him her future would be assured And there seemed no other alternative Her confidence in herself furthermore was not shaken, she had a deep unalterable conviction that the wish for the union she so desired was based upon so that she could put into words or even into concrete thought, but the belief was strong It was a vivid assurance that went beyond reasoning, thatto let the past dominate the rest of your life," she asked slowly, "is the future to count for nothing? There are, in all probability, many years ahead of you--cannot you, in theone before?"

He turned froesture and a o as she feared he would He lingered in the roo fire and Miss Craven played her last card