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Thus they breathed more freely now Most of the tu, by the retirement into the arcade They paused, to plan their course

At Stern the girl looked eagerly

"Oh, oh, Allan--how horrible!" she whispered "It was allinsisted on a look at theain "No , now, is whether we attack or wait?"

"Attack? Now?"

"I don't thinkup-stairs without that pail of water We'll have a frightful ti able to make the Pulverite Water we hty soon wade into that bunch and see ins! But--well, I haven't any right to endanger--"

Beatrice seized his hand and pulled him toward the doorway

"Come on!" cried she "If you and I aren't a match for them, we don't deserve to live, that's all You kno I can shoot now! Co!"

Her eyes gleaht of battle, battle for liberty, for life; her cheeks gloith the tides of generous blood that coursed beneath the skin Never had Stern beheld her half so beautiful, so regal in that clinging, barbaric Bengal robe of black and yellow, caught at the throat with the clasp of raw gold

A sudden impulse seized him, dominant, resistless For a brief moment he detained her; he held her back; about her supple body his arhtened

She raised her face in wonder He bent, a little, and on the brow he kissed her rapturously

"Thank God for such a comrade and a--friend!" said he