ir, the sound of muffled thuds, falling quickly in rhythmical sequence,
on the brick-paved space which melted away into the darkness to their
left.

"What's that?" exclaimed Mr. Reynolds. His nerves also were shaken by
the news which he had just heard; but even as he spoke he saw that the
sound which seemed so strange, so--so sinister, was caused by a tall
figure only now coming out of the shadows away across the Market Place.
What puzzled Mr. Reynolds was the man's very peculiar gait. He seemed,
if one can use such a contradiction in terms, to be at once crawling and
swinging along.

"It's my husband!"

Rose Blake raised her head. A wavering gleam of light fell on her pale,
tear-stained face, and showed it suddenly as if illumined, glowing from
within: "He's never been so far by himself before--I must go to him!"

She began walking swiftly--almost running--to meet that strangely slow
yet leaping figure, which was becoming more and more clearly defined
among the deeply shaded gas lamps which stood at wide intervals in the
great space round them.

Then, all at once, they heard the eager, homing cry, "Rose?" and the
answering cry, "Jervis?" and the two figures seemed to become merged
till they formed one, together.

THE END

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