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She sat silent for so long that I presently turned froly She s her head

"I never seem to understand you, Carus," she said "You have done your part, yet it appears already you are planning to go hunting about for soe to knock you in the head with a death-maul"

"But the war is not ended, Elsin"

"No, nor like to be until it compasses your death Then, indeed, will it be ended for hed, "this is a new note in your voice"

"Is it? Perhaps it is I told you, Carus, that there is no happiness in love And, just now, I love you It is strange, is it not?--when aught threatens you, straightway I begin to sadden and presently fall in love with you; but when there's no danger anywhere, and I have nothing to sadden h to pass the balance of the day in your companionship--only that when you are away I desire to knohere you are and what you do, and hoh Deary o to the Blue Fox and drink a dish of tea"

We walked back to the inn through the sweetest evening air that I had breathed innow and then to add a blossoathered, I lingering, happy into skip flat stones across the Bronx, now creeping up to the bank to surprise the trout and see theravel, nohistling to ih in his black-and-white livery and sings into happiness all who hear hihlands; swar sky I heard the far ca the eastern hills; then, as the red sun went out behind the wooded heights, bang! the evening gun's soft thunder shook the silence And our day was ended