[The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wings of the Morning CHAPTER XVII 32/62
It is worth so much that you will hardly believe it until then? can no longer be any doubt in your mind. I suppose that is why Robert asked me not to mention his discovery to you earlier." "No, Iris, that was not the reason," said her lover, and the older men felt that more than idle fancy inspired the astounding intelligence that they had just heard.
"Your love was more to me than all the gold in the world.
I had won you.
I meant to keep you, but I refused to buy you." He turned to her father.
His pent-up emotion mastered him, and he spoke as one who could no longer restrain his feelings. "I have had no chance to thank you for the words you uttered at the moment we quitted the ship.
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