In spite of the dark he could guess at every varying shade of her expression.
"To the rest of us," she murmured, "Dan has nothing but silence, and hardly a glance.

Buck saved his life to-night, and yet Dan remembered nothing except the blow which had been struck.

And now--now he pours out all the music in his soul for a dumb beast.

Listen!" He saw her straighten herself and stand taller.
"Then through the wolf--I'll conquer through the dumb beast!" She whipped past Byrne and disappeared into the house; at the same instant the whistling, in the midst of a faint, high climax, broke, shivered, and was ended.

There was only the darkness and the silence around Byrne, and the unsteady wind against his face..