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"Of course you are," he whispered tenderly, hiding her little hands in his

"I--I was so afraid--so up to hi with tears Silently he kissed her lips

Froether in a neorld No revealing as spoken; no voere given, none asked for; but a new bond held therew older, quieter, taller, he huether

So the days passed The sun burned in the heavens; but the silvered glory of the ht it rose later than the night before Then one day Zora whispered: "Tonight!"

Bles came to the cabin, and he and Zora and Elspeth sat silently around the fire-place with its ht was bal the hidden places of the swaht birds, jarred the stillness Long they sat, until the silence crept into Bles's flesh, and stretching out his hand, he touched Zora's, clasping it

After a ti black chest Out of it she brought an old bag of cotton seed--not the white-green seed which Bles had always known, but s her hands deep down and letting theain they sat and waited and waited, saying no word

Not until the stars of h the swauide the old woman, but he found she knew the way better than he did Her shadowy figure darting in and out ae, irl away to the thicket at the edge, and stood still and black in the ly around Zora, glancing fearfully about in the darkness Slowly a great cry rose and swept the island It struckFrom afar there seemed to come the echo or the answer to the call The forht di blacker and larger They heard the whispering "swish-swish" of falling seed; they felt the heavy tread of a great co body The for a ain away, and the "swish-swish" of the falling seed alone rose in the silence of the night