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them. t@O?"

"What could it mean, except that We
have come back to each other?"
Don't !" she rebelled. you brighten
me-"
He smiled at her, and her breath
quickened in her throat "Why should
you be afraid. beloved?"
The blare of motor horn brought
She jumped to her feet. "Wheww she
whistled briskly Were lucky to be-
alive after that close call. Look!"
A Dough, riven by the thunderbolt
from the great elm, covered Calvin
Sennett's mound as with a massive
wreath.
"There's the car, come back for me-"
she added.
You're not going, now?" he said, in
credulOusly.
"Of course" she laughed But there
was tremor in her voice.
Eleanor" He held out his arms.
She swayed to him, pressed to him,
set her lips to his in swift, soft
caress.
"That's for good-by," she said,
breathlessly. "It's all nonsense, you
know. And we must forget"
He wrote her once, long, passionate,
yearning letter, ending, II bind you to
wait for me-" Then the land Of vast
forests and unmapped rivers swal.
lowed him up
And Eleanor Jermyn told herself
that it was only strange and sweet
and finished episode.
III
"And now" said Calvin Sennett,
"when may I see her."
BY all the proprieties 1 should have
consulted the Jermyn family. But,
what use? Those two would have
| been drawn together as inevitably as
magnet and steel.
Tomorrow morning: At my apart
ment," replied.
mot tonight?" he asked gently.
you can talk with her. I partly
yielded, "if anything so modern as q
phone will serve your purpose"
called Norrie and relinquished the
instrument to him. What they said
can only surmise. Probably it could
have been as effectually communicated
by telepathy.
| He was at my apartment, writing,
when NOrrie came I was there also
l might as well have been in Patagonia
for all that they reckoned when they
saw each other. He called her name
and there came from her lips broken
breath like the sigh of respite from
lOng-borne pain of yearning and depri-
walton, as she ran to his arms. found
the street scenery sufficiently engross-
ing until Norrie's voice notified me
that they were aware of my existence
again.
Were going away" she announced
"You must tell the family, Vix, dear"
"Must I? When are you going?"
1t was he who answered, Tonight
"Indeed! Where?"
docs it matter?" said she.
I perceived that it did not; that
nothing in the universe mattered ia
those two but their rejoined selves TIC
me, however, as representing the
world of hard actualities, there was a
phase that did matter "Without cere.
mony?' inquired.
They started, brusquely recalled
from their exclusive absorption in each
other.
| hnNn fn hn n.fo Il I.N,,Sk
WEI" said he in a bemused voice
1T seems absurd" said the girl
'but I suppose we do"
81 suppose you do, indeed"
And so, as they say in the tales of
everyday. prosaic love and mating
they were married. and by the me.
chanical processes of formal law these
two strange, lOng-conioined, long-part-
ed spirits from out fateful past.
| Was it true. that visioned encounter
that had marked their pathway into
each others arms for them? Or was
| 1t only the imagining of two young,
| ardent minds, super senSitiZed by their
abrupt and startling approach, by their
| instant and compelling consciousness
of one another? | do not know
shall never know. Not that it has the
smallest Importance. What is and ever
shall be essential in the lives of those
two is that they fervidly believe in it
as their ordained fate.
And so, in these days of change, of
discomfort, of ties readily soluble, faith
lightly foregone, that ancient bond,
know, will endure.