"
"Will you--forgive me," he said, "for making--a boss shot!"
Then she turned to the prostrate form beside her on the floor, and
saw that the light of understanding had come back into those
haunted eyes.
She knelt over him and laid her hand upon his rough hair. "Oh,
Guy, hush--hush!" she said. "Thank God you are still here!"
A very strange expression flitted over his upturned face, a look
that was indescribably boyish and yet so sad that she caught her
breath to still the intolerable pain at her heart.
"I shan't be--long." he said. "Thank God for that--too! I've
been--working myself up to it--all day."
"Guy!" she said.
He made a slight movement of one hand, and she gathered it close
into her own. It seemed to her that the Shadow of Death had drawn
very near to them, enveloping them both.
"It had--to be," he said, in the husky halting voice so unfamiliar
to her. "It--was a mistake--to try to bring me back.
I'm--beyond--redemption. Ask Burke;--he knows!"
"You are not--you are not!" she told him vehemently. "Guy!" She
was holding his hand hard pressed against her heart; her words came
with a rush of pitying tenderness that swept over every barrier.
"Guy! I want you! You must stay. If you go now--you--you will
break my heart."
His eyes kindled a little at her words, but in a moment the emotion
passed.
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