The nurse paused a moment longer, strangely thrilled. Then her training asserted itself.
“You must not excite yourself,” she cautioned. “You must go to sleep. Good-night.”
“Good-night!” came the murmured answer. “I will try to sleep.”
But for long and long she lay staring up into the darkness, glowing with the precious memory of a man’s strong arms about her, his ardent lips on hers.
“He is safe,” her soul assured her. “He will seek you up and down the world until he finds you. You shall lie again upon his breast; you shall hear his heart beating ... sometime ... somewhere——”
And with a long sigh of contentment, she closed her eyes and slept.
TWO NOTEWORTHY DETECTIVE STORIES
By BURTON E. STEVENSON
THE MARATHON MYSTERY
With five scenes in color by Eliot Keen