"Oh, I can not leave you! My place is here with you to the very last—do not send me away!"
"I could not bear it," he said steadily. "You must leave Mount Hope to-morrow—to-day—"
He felt her arms tighten about his neck.
"To-day?" she faltered miserably. "To-day—"
Her arms relaxed. He pressed his lips to her pale cold lips and to her eyes, from which the light of consciousness had fled.
"General Herbert!" he called.
Instantly the general appeared in the doorway.
"She has fainted!" said North.
Her father turned as if with some vague notion of asking assistance, but North checked him.
"For God's sake take her away while she is still unconscious!" and he placed her in her father's arms. For a moment his hand lingered on the general's shoulder. "Thank you—good-by!" and he turned away abruptly.