[* “I love thee, O Loskiel...  Ah, thou mightest have been destroyed!  If thou hadst perished by the wayside——­“]

“Hush, dearest—­ dearest maid.  ’Twixt God and Tharon, nothing can harm us now.”

And I heard the faint murmur of her lips on mine: 

“Etho, ke-non-wes.  Nothing can harm us now.”

THE END