She was gone forever, and yet she had come back to him, and the truth grew upon him that this spirit of her would never leave him again as long as he lived.

He felt her nearness.

Unconsciously he reached out his arms, and a strange happiness entered Into him to battle with grief and loneliness.

His eyes shone with a new glow as they looked at her little belongings on the sunlit rock.

It was as if they were flesh and blood of her, a part of her heart and soul.