"I--do love you," she whispered.... "I'll give what you give.... Only you must teach me--not to be--afraid." Her cheek lay close to his shoulder; his arms drew her nearer. And, after he had waited a long while, her gray eyes, which had been watching his face, slowly closed, and she lifted her lips toward his. THE END Transcriber's Notes: Hyphenation has been standardized. Nonstandard spellings have been maintained, e.g. "barytone", but clear spelling errors have been corrected ("hynotised" replaced with "hypnotised", "f" replaced with "of"). Missing periods have been added at ends of sentences. Missing close quotes have been added. End of Project Gutenberg's The Streets of Ascalon, by Robert W. Chambers