Then she smiled bravely, "I will try to be a true comrade, like a man," she said.

Sometimes one has been permitted; but they do not know you," she said, with a pitiful look in her sweet eyes.

She said: "You handsome soldier boy!

and she said, 'No, it's for girls, you know.

"It must be a blessed thing to be so useful as to be needed by the good God," she said.

On being questioned respecting her parentage, she said her father's name was Shíwer, of the race of Feridún.

"The ground's so shaly and crumbly," she said thoughtfully, "that it would be impossible to let a man down with a ropethe earth would cave in and bury him.

When La Couteau at last reappeared with empty arms she said never a word, and Mathieu put no question to her.

So she smiled, but the water stood in her eyes; and after a little pause she said, I will call forth two or three more of the family.

"I am sorry," she said gently after a moment, "but I am afraid that is just what I can't tell you.

"Oh, Piers," she said in a voice that thrilled him through and through, "do you think I would have less of your loveeven if it hurts me?

'You could pass for one,' she said, 'but Monsieur Logotheti couldn't.'

But she said never a word.

"I am in control," she said, looking down at him.

And so she said, and the new shyness brought its own sweetness: "You tell me to come to you if I need a guide.

she said cordially.

And she said: Hast thou, hast thou indeed forgotten all?

"I never heard that word in this house before," she said stiffly.

'My dear,' she said, 'I have long seen it was only duty and a foolish promise made by a young man to an old woman, that has held you to your engagement.

she said in a low voice.

she said, receiving the information gravely, and raising her eyebrows.

"Come in and have a bit of supper," she said at last.

"I am Virginia Royall," she said.

"I've took a 'eap o' trouble to find yer," she said.

" The hot blood suffused the temples of the indignant wife as she said, "This apartment, madam, I believe is mine?" "Oh, certainly, as long as you can pay for it;" and rudely slamming the door, the landlady departed.