Part 69 (2/2)

”And was it concern forwhen you saw hi? That hat opened my eyes”

”Wounded? I had not seen his wound I saw hi alive and apparently unhurt in his caleche, and I concluded that he had killed you as he had said he would What else could I conclude?”

He saw light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him He fell back, a hand to his brow ”And that hy you fainted?” he asked incredulously

She looked at hian to realize how erness tointo her eyes

He held out both hands to her

”Aline! Aline!” His voice broke on the name ”It was I”

”O blind Andre, it was always you--always! Never, never did I think of hie, save once for a little while, when when that theatre girl caed, and turned her head away ”I thought of following a left to follow”

He shook hi, of course, or else I am mad,” he said

”Blind, Andre; just blind,” she assured him

”Blind only where it would have been presumption to have seen”

”And yet,” she answered him with a flash of the Aline he had known of old, ”I have never found you lack presu ahands and staring each at the other, beatifically, as if each saw Paradise in the other's face