I did not want to alarm my father or anybody, as I wished nobody to know of these meetings with you; so I could think of no other plan than slipping off my skirt, meaning to run on and tell you what a strange accident had happened to me.

But when I had just freed myself by leaving the dress behind, I heard steps, and not being sure it was you, I did not like to be seen in such a pickle, so I hid away." "It was only your speed that saved you! One or both of your legs would have been broken if you had come at ordinary walking pace." "Or yours, if you had got here first," said she, beginning to realize the whole ghastliness of the possibility.

"Oh, Edgar, there has been an Eye watching over us to-night, and we should be thankful indeed!" He continued to press his face to hers.

"You are mine--mine again now." She gently owned that she supposed she was.

"I heard what you said when you thought I was injured," she went on, shyly, "and I know that a man who could suffer as you were suffering must have a tender regard for me.