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"I know, Allan, but--"

"There's no other way! Our work is just begun!"

She nodded silently, then said in a low tone: "Yours the labor; , and the fear!"

"The fear? Since when have you grown timid?"

"Only for you, Allan! Only for you! Suppose, sohed

"We thrashed that all out the first ti these people here Yours is waiting, watching--and being strong!"

Her hand tightened on his, and for a little while they sat quite still and without speech, watching the day draw to its close

Far belo Hope River chattered its incessant gossip to the vexing boulders Above, in the sky, lazy June clouds, hite, drifted to ard, as though seeking the glory that there proold and crimson

A pleasant wind swayed the forest, wherein the scarlet birds flitted like flashes of fla no room for words

But suddenly Allan's eyes narrowed, and with a singular hardening of expression, a tightening of the jaw, he peered away at the dim, haze-shrouded line of far horizon to northeastward

He cast a sidelong glance at Beatrice She had noticed nothing

One h to speak, then repressed the words, and once ue as almost to leave a doubt in ht had detected so which caused his heart to throb the quicker and his eye to gleam with hate

For, at the very rim of the world, di in the evening air