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 he came down he was not at all the same person he had been before then. It has happened exactly to you. You are not the same person you were yesterday before we came up into the mountains. I feel the difference like a blow in the face, and I know that I am riding beside a stranger. What has happened?"

"Nothing at all. It happens I've never been among mountains before, except on a train, and I find they get on my nerves a little; that's all."

"I am so sorry," she said gently. "Indeed I am sorry. You were cold, too—shivering by that poor little fire last night. I know. I understand. You hate the mountains, you hate the Kabyles—and you hate me!"

"What nonsense!" he said impatiently. "There's nothing whatever the matter."

"My dear! Do you think I can't feel it?" She was silent for a moment, seeming to ponder upon some perplexity; then she laughed as if at an absurd idea intruding upon her. "It could not beNo, you would never be so foolish as that!"

"As what?"

"You could not be cross because these English are to lunch with us at Yakouren?" She looked out through the small window behind her. "Yes; they