I confess that an hour ago I cared not greatly what my end might be; I had lost heart and hope.

But now your coming, as of one risen from the dead, has brought back my courage." "You will go, then, whenever and wherever I say ?" She stepped forward with her old frank confidence, resting both hands in mine, her eyes upon my face.
"Out yonder in the night, and amid the sand, John Wayland," she said earnestly, "I remember saying I would travel with you whithersoever you wished.

I know you far better now than I did then, and I hesitate not at taking upon myself the same vow." What power then sealed my lips, I know not.

Doubtless there is a fate in such matters, yet 't is strange the light of invitation in her eyes did not draw me to lay bare my heart.

In naught else had I a drop of coward blood within my veins; while here I hesitated, fearful lest her pleading face might change to sudden roguishness, and she laugh lightly at the love that held my heart in thrall.