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? ? ? ? For a moment Meriem was silent, buried in thought. Her first question seemed irrelevant.

? ? ? ? "How did you happen to be in this village?" she asked.

? ? ? ? He told her all that had transpired since the black had told him of Hanson's duplicity.

? ? ? ? "You say that you are a coward," she said, "and yet you have done all this to save me? The courage that it must have taken to tell me the things that you told me but a moment since, while courage of a different sort, proves that you are no moral coward, and the other proves that you are not a physical coward. I could not love a coward."

? ? ? ? "You mean that you love me?" he gasped in astonishment, taking a step toward her as though to gather her into his arms; but she placed her hand against him and pushed him gently away, as much as to say, not yet. What she did mean she scarcely knew.


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