43/77 I thought Chris would be gone. Why, John Wesley, I have known you all my life! You couldn't do that! You couldn't! Oh, kiss me, kiss me--faithful John!" But he bent and kissed her hands--lest, looking into his eyes, she should read in the book of his life one long, long chapter--that bore her name. strike upon that basin with the butt of thy spear thrice, and soon after thou shalt hear new tidings, and else hast thou the fairest grace that many a year had ever knight that passed through this forest_.... _Then anon Sir Ector beat on the basin as he were wood_." Chapter I "_Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go_!" Steve Thompson had sold his cattle. |