I am unable to say what--I--" He stopped short.

As he stood gazing down into her sweet face, burning, passionate words came to his lips; but he was dumb; he could not speak.

All day long he had been living in a dream.

Now he realized that but a moment remained for him to be near the girl he loved so well.

He was leaving her, perhaps never to see her again, or to return to find her another's.