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hands touched and clung now, desperately. Together they must find their way out. "I am--I was--the boy of the Far Hill Place. I played for you--once--to dance--right here!" Something seemed snapping in Priscilla's brain. "Yes," she whispered, breathing hard and quick. "I remember now: you taught me music, and--and you taught me--love, but you told me not to let them kill my ideal; and, oh! I haven't! I haven't!" She shut her eyes and reeled forward. She did not faint, but for a moment her senses refused to accept impressions. Travers knelt and caught her to him as she fell. Her dear head was upon his knee once more, and he pressed his lips to the wonderful hair from which the little hat had fallen. Then her eyes opened, but her lips trembled. "You--came all the way from the Place Beyond the Winds, little girl, to show me my ideal again; to strike your blow--for women." Travers was whispering. "Your ideal? But no, dear love. Your ideal is back there--in the Garden." "And yours? I--I do not understand, Priscilla. I am still dazed. What Garden?" "The big world, my dear man; your world." "My blessed child! Do not look like that. Do you think I'm going back without you? I've been looking for--Priscilla Glynn--fool that I was! And you were--great heavens! You were the little nurse in St. Albans!" "Yes--and you and I--stood by Jerry-Jo McAlpin's bed--you and I! That was his secret." "Priscilla, what do you mean?" Then she told him, clinging to him, fearing that he might fall from her hold as she had once fallen from his, on the mountain across the sea. "And you danced before my eyes as only one woman on earth can dance--and I did not know! Tricked by a name and--and the change in me! You were always the same--the flame-spirit that I first saw--here!" "And you played--that tune, and you were divinely good; and I--I did not know." "But we drifted straight to each other, my girl!" "Only--to part." "To part? Never! It's past the Dreamer's Rock for us, my sweet, and out to the open sea. We'll slip our moorings to-night, and send word after! I must have you, and at once. I know what it means to see you escaping my hold. Flame-spirits are elusive." "And--and Margaret?" "She--needs you. A fortnight ago I saw her, and this is what she said, smiling her old, brave smile: 'I think I could bear it better if her dear, shining head was in sight. Greater love hath no woman! Find her and bring he
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