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That night a barge put out, and an officer boarded us, subjecting us to a e suspicion had succeeded routine vigilance; the very guns a, black jaws parted to launch a thunderous warning A guard was placed on deck; ere not allowed to send a boat ashore; not even per-sulls around a floating plank

And all this tih three days and a night of screah the delays where we rode at anchor below the Chain and Dobbs Ferry, under a vertical sun that started the pitch in every seaured, drenched to the skin, faced storm and calm in an ecstasy of reckless happiness

Wild winds fro the mountains, winds of the forests, that tore the cries of exultation from our lips and scattered sound into space, winds ofus of sordid care and sad regret and doubt, these were the sorcerers that changed us back to children while the dull roaring of their incantations filled the world We two alone on earth, and the vast, veiled world spread round, outstretching to the limits of eternity, all ours to conquer, ours for our pleasure, ours to reign in till the moon cracked and the stars faded, and the sun went down forever and a day, and all was chaos save for the blazing trail of blessed souls, soaring to glory through theat our s, much we discussed eternity and creation Doctrines once terrible seeness fros and creeds and laws of faith narrowed to the oldest of precepts; and, ponder and question as weprophet and saint and holy men inspired, all came to the same at last, expressed in that cardinal precept so safe in its si heaven and co earth

"Aye," said she, "but how interpret it? For a misstep means certain damnation, Carus Once when I spelled out 'Love' for you, I stumbled and should have fallen had you not held me up"

"You held me up, sweetheart! I was closer to the brink than you"

She looked thoughtfully at the fortress; the shore was so near that, through the cal from post to post and the ripple of the Hudson at the base of the rocks