I have been here before, and if Elvira Brown could face the storms of forty years from her solitary home, I can surely face a single one, without losing my courage." He said no more, but approaching the house, began to test such windows as he could reach.

He finally broke in a pane and released the latch; after that, entrance was easy.
Yet after he had opened the way for her and she had stepped into the dim interior, he felt loth to leave her.

Duty called him away.

The passenger awaiting him up the road was a man he could not afford to disappoint; yet he stood there longer than the occasion warranted, with the knob of the door in hand, watching her struggle with the lamp, which she at last succeeded in lighting.

As the walls of the hall and her anxiously bending figure burst into view, he uttered a quick "Good-by!" She turned, smiled and tried to thank him, but the words failed to leave her lips.