Volcanoes, and whirlwinds, fire, and all force, held themselves condensed and quiescent in the still room.

I moved first, laying Marie-Therese’s message on the padlocked book.  Standing with folded arms I faced Eagle, and she as stonily faced me.  It was a stare of unspeakable love that counts a thousand years as a day.

She shuddered from head to foot.  Thus a soul might ripple in passing from its body.

“I am not worth a kingdom!” her voice wailed through the room.

I opened my arms and took her.  Volcanoes and whirlwinds, fire, and all force, were under our feet.  We trod them breast to breast.

She held my head between her hands.  The tears streamed down her face.

“Louis!—­you are a king!—­you are a king!”

THE END.

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