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 "At least, you'll go by the house and stay with me a little while?"

"They'll think I'm hiding."

"Who cares what they think? I can't go home alone, can I?"

"Of course, I'll stop a moment. And now we must hurry."

He brought the horses and they galloped back to town in silence. Along a dark rough place of the road, they slowed down to a walk, and his hand sought hers.

"What a strange ending to the most wonderful day of my life!" she suddenly cried with passionate tenderness.

"Why strange?" he asked. "I never had a doubt that you would love me. It was written in the Book of Life."

"But I didn't know it until to-night."

"Tell me, dear," he pleaded; "what sudden flash revealed the truth?"

"Don't ask me!" she said with a shiver. "I'll tell you some day."

"Why not now? This has been a wonderful day for me. I shall never live its like again. I heard for the first time the one woman I love, the only woman I ever loved, the one woman I shall love forever, speak the sweetest words that ever fell from human lips."