In that hour when the near presence of death so overshadowed all the trivial and non-essential things of life--when the little standards and petty values of poor human endeavor were as nothing--this woman knew that by the unwritten edict of God, who decreed that in all life two should be as one, this man was her only lawful mate.

Environment, circumstance, that which we call culture and education, even death, might separate them; but nothing could nullify the fact that was attested by the instinct of her womanhood.

Bending over the man who lay so still, she whispered the imperative will of her heart.
"Come back to me, Phil--I want you--I need you, dear--come back to me!" Slowly he came out of the mists of weakness and pain to look up at her--doubtfully--wonderingly.

But there was a light in Kitty's face that dispelled the doubt, and changed the look of wondering uncertainty to glad conviction.

He did not speak.