Will you tell me your name ?" "Yes--that much--now.

It is Meleese." "Meleese!" The name fell from him sharply.

In an instant there recurred to him all that Croisset had said, and there almost came from his lips the half-breed's words, which had burned themselves in his memory, "Perhaps you will understand when I tell you this warning is sent to you by the little Meleese." What had Croisset meant?
"Meleese," he repeated, looking strangely into the girl's face.
"Yes--Meleese--" She drew back from him slowly, the color fading from her cheeks; and as she saw the light in his eyes, there burst from her a short, stifled cry.
"Now--you understand--you understand why you must go back into the South," she almost sobbed.

"Oh, I have sinned to tell you my name! But you will go, won't you?
You will go--for me--" "For you I would go to the end of the earth!" interrupted Howland, his pale face near to her.

"But you must tell me why.