"Must I live----" "Yes," he interrupted kindly, but with the authority given him by his relations to this case.

"You have won his heart at last, and he speaks truly when he says that to you and to you alone can he look for comfort, wherever the action of the law may leave him." She shivered; then glowed again with renewed fire.
"Thank you," she said; and they passed on.
XXXII "WHY IS THAT HERE ?" They waited while he wrote.

A sinister calm quite unlike that which the victim of his ambition had shown under the stress of equal suffering if not equal guilt had subdued his expression to one of unmoved gloom, never to be broken again.
As word after word flowed from the point of his pen upon the paper spread out before him, the two officials sitting aside in the shadow watched for the flicker of an eyelash, or a trembling of the fingers so busy over their task.

But no such sign of weakening did they see.

Once only did he pause to look away--was it into the past or into futurity ?--with a steady, self-forgetful gaze which seemed to make a man of him again.