"I have nothing to complain of."
"Do you feel lonely? I wonder if you have felt as I have?"
Dolores sighed.
"Sometimes," she said, "I have felt lonely."
"And you have come here to save me?"
"Yes—why not?"
"But you are risking much—perhaps your life."
It all burst forth now.
"I don't care," said Dolores, impetuously, "if I can save—you!"
Ashby made no reply. He took the little hand of Dolores gently and tenderly, without any resistance on her part, and held it in silence.