What does it mean ?" "Make it no more, Lana," he said, in a curiously disturbed voice.

"For wherever you have learned it--if truly from a dream, or from some careless fellow--of my own----" He hesitated, glanced at me.

"You are not a Mason, Loskiel.

And Lana has just given the Masonic signal of distress--having seen me give it in a dream.

It is odd." He sat very silent for a moment, then lay down again at Lana's feet; and for a little while they conversed in whispers, as though forgetting that we were there at all, his handsome head resting against her knees, and her hand touching the hair on his forehead lightly at intervals.
After a few moments I rose and, with Lois, walked forward toward our picket line, from where we could see very plainly the great cattle herd among the trees along the river.
She said in a low and troubled voice: "It has come so far, then, that Lana makes no longer a disguise of her sentiments before you and me.