The strength, the determination of the man, appealed to her with new force, and tears welled into her eyes.
"Why, you are crying!" he exclaimed in surprise.
"That is nothing," her lips smiling, as she loosened one hand from the blanket and reached across to clasp his.

"You must know, dear, how happy I am to have found you.

No one else could have done this." "Oh, yes, little girl," soberly.

"Wasson would have gone on, if I had been the one to go down.

The hardest part of it all was waiting for the storm to cease, not knowing where you were hidden--that nearly drove me insane." "I understand; uncertainty is harder to bear than anything else.