I lied--lied terribly to you.

I have sinned even more terribly, and--and you must go.

Don't you understand me now?
If some one should come--and find you here--" "There would be a fight," he said grimly.

"I have come prepared to fight." He waited a moment, and in the silence the brown head in front of him dropped slowly and he saw a tremor pass through the slender form, as if it had been torn by an instant's pain.

The pallor had gone from Howland's face.