Out of her sphere - University Library

IX THE FORT. 11
know what it was she wanted of him, and
made answer,
" I have not met him for whom you are
concerned ;
you need not have that thought
to disquiet you now ; he is safe for me. Do
you want to know why I sought you here
—followed you from the home that you
will never desecrate again ?"
His very lips were white, and the eyes,
whose tenderness made them so doubly ter-
rible, were fixed on her with a look from
which she shrank and would have turned
away, but that it seemed impossible to
withdraw herself from them. Then she
clung to him, '•' Harold ! Harold ! speak to
me ; what dreadful thing is this that you
are dreamino- of ?"
o
He laid his hand on her almost tenderly
then he said, in a tone that was almost a
whisper, and yet more audible than any
words of his had ever been, *' What should
I be thinking of, but how to put an end to
;