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Then, betimes, she would catch up the child and strain it to her breast, even though it awakened Its cries would loom of the cave they two--she who knew, and he who knew not--would in sohth day she sustained a terrible shock, a sudden joy followed by so poignant a despair that for a moment it seemed to her huerly watching the cloud-patched sky with the telescope, from the cliff-top--while on the terrace old Gesafaht suddenly to behold a distant vision of the aeroplane!

A tiny spot in the heavens, truly, wasacross the field of vision!

With a cry, a sudden flushing of her face, noan and colorless, she seeht And though her hand began to shake so terribly that she could only with a great effort hold the glass, she steadied it against a fern-tree and thusspeck

The Pauillac! Was it indeed the Pauillac and Allan?

"Merciful Heaven!" she staain she watched, her whole soul aflaerness and tremulous joy, ready to burst into a blaze of happiness--and then came disillusion and despair, blacker than ever andspeck turned, wheeled and rose One second she caught sight of wings She kneas only soe, tropic bird, afar on the horizon--some condor, vulture, or other creature of the air

Then, as with a quick swoop, the vulture slid away and vanished behind a blue hill-shoulder, the wo--burst into a terrible, dry, sobbing plaint Her tears, long since exhausted, would not flow Grief could pass no further liht of her child once more Slowly she returned down the via dolorosa of the terrace-path, the here she and Allan had so often and so gaily trodden; the path now so barren, so hateful, so solitary

To her little son she returned, and in her ar ar

Old Gesafa compassionately with troubled eyes that blinked behind their irl's shoulder

"Do not weep, O Yulcia, ue "Weep not, for there is still hope See, all things are going on, as before, in the colony!" She gestured toward the lower caves, whence the sounds of smithy-work and other toil drifted upward "All is yet ith us Only our Kromno is away And he will yet come! He will come back to us--to the child, to you, to all who love and obey him!"