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could learn nothing of any mo- ment; and on returning to the fort in the evening. dispfrfted and depressed at my failure. found Molta await Ing me.
 have not come in anger. Beppo." she said. seeing by my looks that she was not welcome.
 What Is your wishr
 You have summed me these two days"
 What is itz" I repeated.
 'I have thousand fears. for you. You are in danger. I have come to warn you. I was mad when we part ed--nfad with rage and Jealousy. But 1t is not too late to undo the mischief"
 ."I am armed and can protect my self"
 "oh God, how can you look so cold fly at nfe! You will kill me, Bcppo. And I have come to warn you there is plot against your life--to take 1t this very night"
 "How do you know this?" I asked. doubting her.
 Heaven forgive me. have been party to it."
 How can that be. when there is common, talk that you and I are rec- oneiledT
 T spoke only with Giuseppe. cast my voice against you" she replied slowly, her face palinE and her eyes falling before mine. But have rued. Beppo. Il cannot bear that you should die. They will come tonight when you sleep. Giuseppe and Drako. by tho cliff where the path has been hewn and made easy"
 "Giuseppe again" I murmured.
 They are both set on your death because of your" She paused and looked up. leaving the sentence un- finished.
 l"Because you let him make love to you and he. thought to wed you.
 "But more because of vicino's death. Beppo."
 With an effort Progressed the ex- citement with which I heard this. | Docs he deem me cur like hifn' self that I should tell what I know l of that?' I asked with a sheer. You do know. then. that 1t was | he who killed vicinoT
 was not there? How did you
 Prom himself. when you were ill you bade me find out the truth from him.
 his secret and saved him from me on l the night of my return. He, should De l grateful to you"
 intended no more by this sheer than to prevent her seeing that had learnt the news for the first time. I was thus utterly surprised by the ef- feet of the words.
 She rushed to me and seized my arms, staring up into my face with strange light in her eyes, and then with sudden and half hysterical laugh she let her head fall on my shoulder. cared had you killed him? saw then .she had mistaken my aneer for a sign of jealousy. I took her wrists to put her away from me; and again she mistook my. purpose. She let her hands slip into mine and
 glanced up with smile You are jealous. Beppo. Ana so l have been. Oh, how I have suffered, dearest But I do not really believe you care for Masita. Forgive me. I cannot live without you. The days of | our quarrel have been more dark and drear than any in my life. My heart | was nearly broken will never an- | ger you again; never in all my life, If | you will but love me. I love you so
 [ do. I do, with all my soul and being | When I thought had lost you could have killed myself. You will under
 stand now. Your jealous thought about me and Giuseppe will show you. He is less than nothing to me. Iswear 1 that to you. Oh, God, this reasonless | jealousy. Don't let 1t part us. Beppo; | my Beppo. always mine. Whisper that | to me, dearest" and she clung to me
 and gazed into my eyes as if hunger ing for the assurance which I could 1 not give her. 1 Of all the embarrassments of that time, none was more dfsconcerting than this. That she cared for me I could l not doubt; and knew that in the days | of my lost self I had wooed her pas | sionately and with vows of love! For l that I owed such amends as 1t was in l my power to make; and there was but | one course could take. I must tell | her the truth.
 Her anger I could have faced with
 out caring; but this avowal spoken