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"Are--you--there?" The girl's voice came low from the blackness

"Yes," he replied, and was conscious that his laboring breast made speech difficult

"Are we--in a cave?"

"Yes"

"Oh, listen!The waterfall!I hear it! You've broughtmoan that one moment swelled to a pitch almost softly shrill and the next lulled to a low, al--in the--cliffs," he panted "You're far fro's--canyon"

The effort it cost hi upon great exertion It seemed that when he lay down and drew his blanket over him the action was the last before utter prostration He stretched inert, wet, hot, his body one great strife of throbbing, stinging nerves and bursting veins And there he lay for a long while before he felt that he had begun to rest

Rest caht, but no sleep Sleep he did not want

The hours of strained effort were now as if they had never been, and he wanted to think Earlier in the day he had dise; but nohen there was no longer deth and he had ti that had sadly perplexed as well as elevated his spirit

Above hih a V-shaped cleft in the dark rim of the cliff, shone the lustrous stars that had been his lonely accusers for a long, long year To-night they were different He studied theer, whiter, more radiant they seemed; but that was not the difference he meant Gradually it came to him that the distinction was not one he saw, but one he felt In this he divined as ht would be revealed to hi of the cliff-winds in his ears, the white stars above the dark, bold vent, the difference which he felt was that he was no longer alone