THE SILENT BELL He stood looking at her with earnest thoughtful eyes.

Suddenly the woman-soul within her awoke in a surging, inexplicable wave of emotion which almost overcame her; and after it came something of realization of the great fight he was making for her--for her, and the aged, feeble grandfather waiting patiently out there.

He loved her, this master among men, and she sighed contentedly.

For the moment the maddening anxiety that brought her here was forgotten; there was only the ineffable sweetness of seeing him again.

She extended her hands to him impulsively, and he kissed them both.
"The difficulty of you leaving here," he went on after a little, "is that you would be followed, and within two hours these men would know all about you--where you are stopping, how long you have been there; they would know of your daily telephone messages to your grandfather, and then, inevitably, they would appear out there, and learn all the rest of it.