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Giulio Rivardi gazed at her wonderingly,--his dark deep Southern eyes expressed adled

"You are very sure of yourself"--he said, gently "Of course one cannot but rasped in so short a ti to discover--"

"Men are slow ani instead of in doing Then again, when one of theainst hiht or wrong I, as a mere woman, ask nobody for an opinion--I riskto do with governh!--but I do not propose to either give or sell my discovery"

"Surely you will not keep it to yourself?"

"Why not? The world is too full of inventions as it is--and it is not the least grateful to its inventors or explorers It would make the fool of a filreat scientist or a noble thinker to starve No, no! Let It swing on its own round--I shall not enlighten it!"

She walked on, gathering a flower here and there, and he kept pace beside her

"Thehere"--he at last ventured to say--"are deeply interested You can hardly expect the each other and in the outside clubs and -places of the wonderful ed They have been at it now steadily for fifteen months"

"Do I not know it?" And she turned her head to hiularly?--and yours? I do not care how they talk or where,--they have built the White Eagle, but they cannot ht you would be when you decided to fly alone, trusting to the ive!"

She broke off and was silent for a htly on his arm, she added-"I thank you for your confidence in me! As I have said, you were brave!--you must have felt that you risked your life on a chance!--nevertheless, for once, you allowed yourself to believe in a woman!"

"Not only for once but for alould I so believe!--in SUCH a woman--if she would permit me!" he answered in a low tone of intense passion She smiled