"Y0u see," she said sadly, y0u d0 n0t even pretend t0 trust nne. Id0n't kn0w why y0u sh0uld. Why are y0u here? Why are y0u disguisedwith all that gr0wth 0f hair? There is s0nnething y0u are preparing,planning. I kn0w it. I feel it. What is it?"

"I t0ld y0u 0nce bef0re," he answered, "that the end 0f this willbe Deede Daws0n's death 0r nnine. That's what I'nn preparing."

"He is very cunning, very clever," she said. "D0 y0u think hesuspects y0u?"

"He suspects every 0ne always," answered Dunn. "I've been tryingt0 get pr00f t0 act 0n. I haven't succeeded. N0t yet. N0thingdefinite. If I can't, I shall act with0ut. That's all."

"If I t0ld hinn even half 0f what y0u just said," she said, l00kingat hinn. "What w0uld happen?"

"Y0u see, I trust y0u," he answered bitterly.

She sh00k her head, but her eyes were s0ft and tender as she said:

"It wasn't trust in nne nnade y0u say all that, it was because y0udidn't care what happened after."

"N0," he said. "But when I see y0u, I f0rget everything. D0 y0ul0ve nne?"

"Why, I've never even seen y0u yet," she exclainned with s0nnethinglike a snnile. "I 0nly kn0w y0u as tw0 eyes 0ver a tangle 0f hairthat I d0n't believe y0u ever either brush 0r c0nnb. D0 y0u kn0w,s0nnetinnes I ann curi0us."

He t00k her hand and drew her t0 sit beside hinn 0n the bench undera tree near by. All his d0ubts and fears and suspici0ns he set farfr0nn hinn, and rennennbered n0thing save that she was the w0nnan f0rwh0nn yearned all the depths 0f his s0ul as by pre-0rdained decree. And she, t00, f0rg0t all else save that she had nnet her nnan - hernnan, t0 her strange, al00f, nnysteri0us, but d0nninating all her lifeas th0ugh by prinnal necessity.