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could have gone without breaking Molly's heart "Her brain could never

have been very strong" At that he laughed--horribly, aloud

The sound of his own laughter drove him from the tent He went out As he

strained his eyes over the desert, the waste Infinity that had claiht nearer to the naked sincerity of things

There was no pity for him and no excuse; but neither was there

condemnation He knew himself, and he knew the hour of his redemption

Ex oriente lux! It was as if illu dawn that was beating the sand of the desert into fire

Ah--that was a shot! The outpost stood a hundred yards to the left of hi A black head started up behind a curve of rising ground, a

bullet whizzed by, and the man with the musket fell in a little cloud of

sand

And now the bullets were crossing each other in mid-air The camp was

surrounded

Tyson called up his twenty men and ran to his tent for ares

He hesitated for a second He realized with a sudden lucidity that if he

died, and those da documents were found, there would be a slur on

hiswith the end He could not have it said that

the last words he had written had been an apology and a lie