All that I can do is to wait, and watch, and guard.

And all that you can do, M'sieur, is to play the part she has asked of you.

In doing that, and doing it well, you will keep the last bit of life in her heart from being trampled out.

If you love her"-- he picked up a tepee pole before he finished, and then, said--"you will do as you have promised!" There was a finality in the shrug of Jean's shoulders which Philip did not question.

He picked up an axe, and while Jean arranged the tepee poles began to chop down a dry birch.