His face was peaceful now but worn and his paleness was more evident than when he had been talking to her father. As she stood watching him, she felt her blood coursing through her as never before and warming her face and her fingertips; and fear--fear of him or of herself, fear of anything at all in the world--fled from her; and love--love which she knew that she need no longer try to deny--possessed her. "Harriet!" She heard her name from his lips and she saw, as he opened his eyes and turned to her, there was no surprise in his look; if he had been sleeping, he had been dreaming she was there; if awake, he had been thinking of her. "What is it, Hugh?" She was beside him and he was looking up into her eyes. "You meant it, then?" "Meant it, Hugh?" "All you said and--and all you did when we--you and I--were alone against them all! It's so, Harriet! You meant it!" "And you did too! Dear, it was only to me that you could come back--only to me?" "Only to you!" He closed his eyes in his exaltation. "Oh, my dear, I never dreamed--Harriet in all the days and nights I've had to plan and wonder what might be for me if everything could come all right, I've never dreamed I could win a reward like this." "Like this?" He opened his eyes again and drew her down toward him. "Like you!" She bent until her cheek touched his and his arms were about her. He felt her tears upon his face. "Not that; not that--you mustn't cry, dear," he begged. "Oh, Harriet, aren't you happy now?" "That's why. Happy! I didn't know before there could be anything like this." "Nor I.... So it's all right, Harriet; everything is all right now?" "All right? Oh, it's all right now, if I can make it so for you," she answered. THE END Popular Copyright Novels _AT MODERATE PRICES_ Ask Your Dealer for a Complete List of A. L. Burt Company's Popular Copyright Fiction Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The. By Frank L. Packard. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. By A. Conan Doyle. After House, The. By Mary Roberts Rinehart. Ailsa Paige. By Robert W. Chambers. Alton of Somasco. By Harold Bindloss. Amateur Gentleman, The. By Jeffery Farnol. Anna, the Adventuress. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Anne's House of Dreams. By L. M. Montgomery. Around Old Chester. By Margaret Deland. Athalie. By Robert W. Chambers. At the Mercy of Tiberius. By Augusta Evans Wilson. Auction Block, The. By Rex Beach. Aunt Jane of Kentucky. By Eliza C. Hall. Awakening of Helena Richie. By Margaret Deland.