He walked slowly to meet her and stood looking into her soul, searching its depths.
"You here?" she gasped—
"Yes. I brought my tribute to a brave and generous foe. He hated me, perhaps—but for your sake he gave me my life—I never hated him—"
"With his last breath he told me that he no longer hated you," she answered dreamily.
"And you cannot forgive?"
"No. Our lives are far apart now. The gulf between us can never be passed."
He smiled tenderly and spoke with vibrant passion.
"I'm going to show you that it can be passed. I'm going to love you with such devotion I'll draw you at last with resistless power—"
"Never—"
She turned quickly and left him gazing wistfully at her slender figure silhouetted against the glow of the sunset.