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For a space we looked into each other's eyes across the short distance

that separated us We were reading each other's souls, and both saw and

understood all that the heart of love could desire It was an

undiscovered country to each of us, upon which we trod just then; a new

creation that was the sweeter because of its strangeness

"I love you!" Zara whispered; and she came nearer until her hands

rested upon my shoulders, until her face was close to ainst htly

in a half s

karetta with its freight of assassins

I took her in my arainst ht leness of purpose that

brought us together in the kiss of perfect love; and we remained so

while htly

againstof her heart and the

quivering eagerness of her lithe body, warers and perils that surrounded us; forgot the world and all it