I do not wish to see her life given, as her dear mother's was--" He broke down for a moment, and covered his eyes with his hands.

In an instant Margaret was beside him, clasping him close, and kissing him, and comforting him with loving words.

Then, standing erect, with one hand on his head, she said: "Father! mother did not bid you stay beside her, even when you wanted to go on that journey of unknown danger to Egypt; though that country was then upset from end to end with war and the dangers that follow war.

You have told me how she left you free to go as you wished; though that she thought of danger for you and and feared it for you, is proved by this!" She held up her wrist with the scar that seemed to run blood.

"Now, mother's daughter does as mother would have done herself!" Then she turned to me: "Malcolm, you know I love you! But love is trust; and you must trust me in danger as well as in joy.