Closer! Pang on pang quivered in his heart.
Was this only a nightmare?
Or had he at last gone mad! This girl raised her head.

She was looking--she saw him.

Terror mounted upon Wade's consciousness.
"That's Lucy's face!" he gasped.

"So help--me, God!...

It's for this--I wandered here! She's my flesh an' blood--my Lucy's child--my own!" Fear and presentiment and blank amaze and stricken consciousness left him in the lightning-flash of divination that was recognition as well.