"I feel as if I could walk out through that brightness and find her.

I reckon that such hopes wouldn't be allowed to lie to us; that so many ages of men couldn't have fooled themselves so.

I'm glad I've seen this." He was silent and they both remained watching the rising sun till they could not bear its splendor.

"Now," said the major, "it must be time for that mud, as you call it." Over their coffee and crackers at the end of the table which they had to themselves, he resumed.

"I was thinking all the time--we seem to think half a dozen things at once, and this was one of them--about a piece of business I've got to settle when I reach home; and perhaps you can advise me about it; you're an editor.