In spite of every effort, her fingers closed around his, and her eyes looked up at him with her whole heart in their clear depths.
"Kate!" he exclaimed, the colour rushing to his face with a sudden thrill of ecstasy, and his hand closing tight over the slender fingers he held.

"Kate!" She turned away, her own cheeks dyed, not daring to meet that eager, questioning look.
"Kate!" he cried, appealingly; "it is because I love you I am going away.

I never thought to tell you." * * * * * Five minutes later Grace opened the door impetuously.
"Frank, don't you know you will be la--Oh, I beg pardon." She closed it hastily, and retreated.

The Captain, standing in the doorway, looked impatiently at his watch.
"What keeps the fellow?
He'll be late to a dead certainty." Grace laughed.
"There is no hurry, I think.

I don't believe Frank will go to Germany this time.".