YOU may talk, if you like, of what will have passed between us, but I shall never mention it to a soul; literally not to a living creature.

What do you want more than that ?" He opened his eyes in deference to the question, but replied only with a gaze as unassisted as if it had come through a hole in a curtain.

"You say you're ready for an adventure, and it's just an adventure that I propose.

If I can make you feel for yourself as I feel for you the beauty of your chance to go in and save her--!" "Well, if you can-- ?" Mitchy at last broke in.

"I don't think, you know," he said after a moment, "you'll find it easy to make your two ends meet." She thought a little longer.