The vagaries of passion! Subtleties! Risks! What sacrifices are not laid willfully upon its altar! In a little while this more than average residence to which Cowperwood had referred was prepared solely to effect a satisfactory method of concealment.

The house was governed by a seemingly recently-bereaved widow, and it was possible for Aileen to call without seeming strangely out of place.

In such surroundings, and under such circumstances, it was not difficult to persuade her to give herself wholly to her lover, governed as she was by her wild and unreasoning affection and passion.

In a way, there was a saving element of love, for truly, above all others, she wanted this man.

She had no thought or feeling toward any other.