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He laughed "Now don't talk any ed-out

You need to rest--to sleep"

"Sleep? How impossible!" she murmured

"Why, your eyes are half shut nowAnyway, I'll not talk to you

I want to think"

"Jiht," she whispered

He bent over rather violently, she iht of the stars He held her tightly for a moment She felt

him shake Then he kissed her on the cheek and abruptly dreay

How strange he seee She had never seen the

stars so bright, so full of power, so close All about her the

shadows gathered protectingly, to hide her and Jiht and it seehtful, so beautiful He would sit there all

night, wide-eyed and alert, guarding her, waiting for the gray of

dawn How he had changed! And she was his wife! But that see to uor stole over her; she relaxed comfortably; after

all, she would sleep But why did that intangible dread hang on to

her soul? The night was so still and clear and perfect--a radiant

white night of stars--and Ji her--and to-ling shapes

haunted her, back in her mind, and there, too, looone on his bloody trail with his broken fortunes

and his desperate bitterness! He had lost her The lunge of that

wild h

her, for she was sorry She could not understand why, unless it was

because she had possessed soood in hiainst that It was

monstrous to know that she had power to turn him from an evil life,