CHAPTER V."BY THE RIVER STARZKE...

IT WAS SO DONE".
There was absolute silence for a moment.

The two men fixed their gaze upon the girl.

The fear which had first come to her face passed suddenly, and a will, new-born and fearless, possessed it.

Yesterday this will had been only a trembling, undisciplined force, but since then she had been passed through the tests which her own soul, or Destiny, had set for her, and she had emerged a woman, confident and understanding, if tremulous.