She ran to it with a cry--a cry of recognition and a cry of terror in one.

She dropped on her knees--and laid that helpless head on her bosom, and kissed, with a sister's kisses, that cold, white cheek.
"Oh, my darling!" she said.

"Is it thus we meet again ?" Yes! After all the years that had passed since the parting in the cabin of the ship, it was thus the two school-friends met again..