"Marion!" Nathaniel rose to his feet and ran to the cabin door.
"Marion!" he called.
Blinding tears shut out the vision of the girl from his eyes.

He pointed, looking from her, and she, knowing what he meant, sped past him to the old councilor.
In the great low room in which Obadiah Price had spent so many years planning his vengeance Captain Plum waited.
After a time, the girl came back.
There was great pain in her voice as she stretched out her arms to him blindly, sobbing his name.
"Gone--gone--they're all gone now--but Neil!" Nathaniel held out his arms.
"Only Neil,"-- he cried, "only Neil--Marion-- ?" "And you--you--you--" Her arms were around his neck, he held her throbbing against his breast.
"And you--" She raised her face, glorious in its love.
"If you want me--still." And he whispered: "For ever and for ever!" THE END.