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It was evening.  Pearl and Seagreave sat in the door of the cabin.  Her head drooped, her hands lay listlessly in her lap, and her brooding gaze was fixed on the soft, dark night.  “Oh,” she cried at last, “how can I do anything but leave you?  Look at the mischief I’ve done in the world.  Look at it!”

Seagreave clasped his arms about her and laid his cheek on hers.  “Let’s forget it all, Pearl, forget that you’ve been a firebrand and I’ve been a quitter, and begin life all over again.  There’s only one thing in it, anyway, and that’s love.”

“Just love,” she answered softly.  “Well, love’s enough.”

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