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"Not to-night!"

But still she hesitated In heron certain

processes she could not have predicted an hour earlier

"I ought to thank you," she said "I do thank you"

His utter silence made it hard for her He could see her hesitation,

which ht of her always, loath to leave

her

Now a sudden wave of so, a directness and frankness born in some

way in this neorld apart from civilization, like a wind-blown flaate's soul as

swiftly, as unpre woe for love Now, to her

horror, the clasp of this man's arm, even when repelled in htened that it still

rereat curiousness

"About--that"--he knehat shebut the truth of me If you have deceived people, I don't want

to deceive you"

"What do you mean?" He was a man of not very many words

"About--that!"