Slowly the fluttering eyelids lifted, and a look of intelligence dawned in the great dark eyes. Then her lips moved.
"Thank you, Joe," she whispered. "Is Gerry safe?" And she gazed eagerly up in the man's face.
"Which if Gerry means the young gent as was with you, miss, he's safe as eggs," replied Joe. "He have gone home; I see him just in front of the paddock as I were comin' back to find you, which I think he might have come hisself to see where you was, more partic'lar as you'd just done the cleverest, neatest, bravest dodge, and took all the danger on yourself to save him. I could see what you was after, only I couldn't get up sooner to help you. But you was good and brave, little lady, and so I'd say if it was my last words."
"I don't think I deserve all that," said Dina, slipping from the man's arms to the ground, and walking by his side. "You see, Gerry's my twin brother, and I love him."
"Yes, miss, and you're the young gent's twin sister, and still he forgot you."
This came back to Dina's mind after she had gone to bed in the little room next to Gerald's, and, realising how true it was, she broke into bitter sobbing and crying. "I saved him, yet he never thought of me afterwards! No one loves me!" And faster came the tears, and deeper the sobs.
Suddenly she heard a whisper in the darkness, and a cool, smooth cheek touched her face.
"Don't, Twinnie darling—don't cry!" said Gerry's voice. "Somehow I never really understood till just now what you'd done for me, not till I was thinking it all over in bed; and I know I'm wicked sometimes, dear, but I do love you, Twinnie, I do!"
So Geraldine was comforted and fell asleep, and dreamed that she was once more in some deadly peril, and was rescued by One whom she somehow knew to be the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet she had never thanked Him, or remembered Him, or loved Him, though she had known that His life had been given for hers.
"I thought Gerry was very cruel when he seemed to have forgotten me," said the child to herself on waking from her vivid dream. "I wonder—oh, I wonder what Jesus thinks of me!"