"
"We shall keep an eye on him. Both of us will not sleep at the
same time. Y'u may depend on me to bring your foreman safely back
to y'u," he smiled.
"Oh, my foreman!"
"And your foreman's friend," he added. "I have the best of
reasons for wanting to return alive. I think y'u know them. They
have to do with y'u, Miss Helen."
It had come at last, but, womanlike, she evaded the issue her
heart had sought. "Yes, I know. You think it would not be fair to
throw away your life in this foolish manner after I have saved it
for you--how many times was it you said?" The blue eyes lifted
with deceptive frankness to the gray ones.
"No, that isn't my reason. I have a better one than that. I love
y'u, girl, more than anything in this world."
"And so you try to prove it to me by running into a trap set for
you to take your life. That's a selfish kind of love, isn't it?
Or it would be if I loved you."
"Do y'u love me, Helen?"
"Why should I tell you, since you don't love me enough to give up
this quixotic madness?"
"Don't y'u see, dear, I can't give it up?"
"I see you won't. You care more for your pride than for me."
"No, it isn't that. I've got to go. It isn't that I want to leave
y'u, God knows.
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