"Yes. But not that alone. I think I cried a little and I _know_ I went down on my knees--right there--out in those woods, when I read those splendid words, 'There is but one more debt to be paid. The "some day" of my hopes is near to me at last.'" Her voice died off. He uncovered his head, and a stillness came that was not broken by any sound or any movement, until he felt her hand slip into his and remain there. "Walk with me!" he said, closing his fingers around hers and holding them fast. "Walk with me always. My God! I love you so!" "Always!" she made answer in her gentle voice; and with her hand shut tight in his, passed onward with him--over the green meadows and into the dim, still woods, and out again into the flower-filled fields beyond, where all the sky was golden after the fierce hues of the sunset had drained away into the tender gleam of twilight, and there was not one red ray left to cross the path of him. "You have led me this way from the first," he said, breaking silence suddenly. "Out of the glare of fire, through the dark, into peaceful light. I had gone down to hell but for you--but that you stooped and lifted me. God!"--he threw back his head and looked upward, with his hat in his hand and the light on his face--"God, forget me if ever I forget that. Amen!" he added, very quietly, very earnestly; then dropped his chin until it rested on his breast, and was very still for a long time. * * * * * "Yes," he said, taking up the thread of conversation where it had been broken so long a time ago, "there is but one more debt to be cleared off: the value of the Princess Goroski's tiara. A thousand pounds will wipe that off--it was not a very expensive one--and I could have had that sum to-day if I had thought of myself alone. Mr. Narkom thinks me a fool. I wonder what you will think when you hear?" And forthwith he told her. "If you are again 'fishing'," she replied with a quizzical smile, "then again you are going to be successful. I think you a hero. Kiss me, please. I am very, very proud of you. And that was what made you late in coming, was it?" "Not altogether that. I might have been earlier but that we ran foul of Waldemar and the Apaches again, and I had to lose time in shaking them off. But I ought not to have told you that. You will be getting nervous. It was a shock to Mr. Narkom. He was so sure they had given up the job and returned home."