"And remember: I am your wife!" "To live that belief, even in a dream, will be a joy as unforgettable as life itself," he whispered, so low that, in turning her head, she made as if she had not heard him.
"Come," she said.

"Let us follow the coulee down to the lake.

We can watch them from among the rocks." She gave him her hand as they began to traverse the boulder-strewn bed of the creek.

Suddenly he said: "You will not suspect me of cowardice if I suggest that there is not one chance in a hundred of them discovering us ?" "No," she replied, with a glance so filled with her confidence and faith that involuntarily he held her hand closer in his own.

"But I want them to find us--if they are whom I fear.