England--just--for a little while? I
want to see my daddy again and tell him how happy I am. He'll like
to know."

"Of course I will take you," he said.

"Thank you." Her hand pressed his arm. "And then we'll come back
here. I want to come back here, Burke. It isn't--a land of
strangers to me any more. It's just--the top of the world. Shall
I tell you--would you like me to tell you--how we managed to get
here?"

His arm went round her. "I think I know."

She turned her face to his. "By faith--and love, my darling," she
said. "There is--no other way. You taught me that."

He kissed her fervently, with lips that trembled. "I love you with
my whole soul," he told her, with sudden passion. "God knows how I
love you!"

She gave herself to him with a little quivering laugh. "Do you
know, partner," she said, "I wanted you to tell me that? I've been
wanting it--for ever so long."

And they were nearer to the stars above them in that moment than to
the world that lay at their feet.

THE END

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