13/30 I don't laugh at your running into fire to help a fellow-mortal." "I knew there wasn't any risk. I knew he had to stop to load before he shot again." "He did shoot again. If I had known you before to-night--I--" His tone changed and he spoke gravely. "I am at your feet in worship of your philanthropy. It's so much finer to risk your life for a stranger than for a friend." "That is rather a man's point of view, isn't it ?" "You risked yours for a man you had never seen before." "Oh, no! I saw you at the lecture; I heard you introduce the Honorable Mr.Halloway." "Then I don't understand your wishing to save me." She smiled unwillingly, and turned her gray eyes upon him with troubled sunniness, and, under the kindness of her regard, he set a watch upon his lips, though he knew it might not avail him. |