"Wait, Jane!" His hands were on her arms, and he would not let her go.
"Will you be my teacher? I want no other."
"My terms are high." She tried to smile, though trembling lips belied
her.
"I'd pay with my life," he whispered in a quick gust of passion.
"Here's my promise----"
He took her in his arms, and between them passed the world-old pledge
of man and girl.
THE END
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Inside the Lines, by
Earl Derr Biggers and Robert Welles Ritchie
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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