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Together, in the co, they reached the soalohere once the road had ended in a stone-paved drive Allan's wounded ar to pain more than a little But he was oblivious His love, the fire of spring that burned in his blood, the lure of this great adventuring, banished all consciousness of ill

Parting a thicket, they reached the steps And for a while they stood there, hand in hand, silent and thrilled with vast, strange thoughts, drea of what must be In their eyes lay lowed in theain, after ten centuries of black oblivion

"Our hoain he kissed her, but this time on the forehead "Ours e shall have reclaimed it and olden future The red, red roses? Our passion and our pain!"

The girl athered in her eyes--tears froht his hand to her lips

"Ours!" she whispered treether for a little space, silent and glad From an oak that shaded the porch a squirrel chippered at theer now than the sparrows they re but unafraid, from its nest under the eaves; at theot a tenant already, haven't we?" suess we sha'n't have to disturb her, unless perhaps for a while, when I cut away this poison ivy here" He pointed at the glossy triple leaf "No poisonous thing, whether plant, snake, spider, or insect, is going to stay in this Eden!" he concluded, with a laugh

Together, with a strange sense of violating the spirit of the past, they went up the concrete steps, untrodden now by human feet for ten centuries

The massive blocks were still intact for thehad builded with endless care and with no reed to insinuate a tap-root in so Except for the falling of a part of a cornice, the building was complete But it was hidden in vines andin the detritus that had accumulated