WORDS OF LOVE Hamlin was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say that would comfort or help.

He had never suspected this, and yet he could not refrain altogether from experiencing a feeling of relief.

Deeply as he sympathized with her in this trouble, still the man could not but be conscious of those barriers formerly existing between them which this discovery had instantly swept away.

Now they could meet upon a level, as man and woman.

No longer could rank intervene; not even the stain of his own court-martial.