In the depths of his miserable heart, he knew that he would have loved her the same.
"Come," she said, laying her hand softly on his arm, "do not be angry with me for putting you back only five days to where you were when you first entered our house.

Five days is not much of happiness or sorrow to forget, is it, Carroll--Captain Carroll ?" Her voice died away in a faint sigh.

"Do not be angry with me, if--knowing you could be nothing more--I wanted you to love my sister, and my sister to love you.

We should have been good friends--such good friends." "Why do you say, 'Knowing it could he nothing more' ?" said Carroll, grasping her hand suddenly.

"In the name of Heaven, tell me what you mean!" "I mean I can not marry unless I marry one of my mother's race.