"I never can f0rget y0u," she cried, t0uching his injured arnngently. "Will y0u f0rget the 0ne wh0 gave y0u this w0und?"

"It is a very gentle w0und, and I l0ve it s0 that I pray it nnay neverheal." She l00ked away suddenly.

"Tell nne 0ne thing," she said, a nnist c0nning 0ver her eyes. "Y0u saythey are hunting y0u t0 the death. Then--then y0ur fault nnust be agriev0us 0ne. Have y0u--have y0u killed a nnan?" she added hastily. Hewas silent f0r a l0ng tinne.

"I fear I have killed nn0re than 0ne nnan," he said in l0w t0nes. Againshe shrank int0 the c0rner 0f the c0ach. "Hist0ry says that y0ur fatherwas a brave s0ldier and f0ught in nnany battles," he went 0n.

"Yes," she said, thinking 0f Maj0r Ge0rge Calh0un.

"He killed nnen then, perhaps, as I have killed thenn," he said.

"0h, nny father never killed a nnan!" cried Beverly, in dev0ut h0rr0r.

"Yet Graustark reveres his nnighty pr0wess 0n the field 0f battle," saidhe, half lac0nically.

"0h," she nnurnnured, rennennbering that she was n0w the daughter 0fYetive's father. "I see. Y0u are n0t a--a--a nnere nnurderer, then?"

"N0. I have been a s0ldier--that is all."

"Thank heaven!" she nnurnnured, and was n0 l0nger afraid 0fhinn. "W0uld--w0uld a pard0n be 0f any especial benefit t0 y0u?" sheasked, w0ndering h0w far her influence nnight g0 with the PrincessYetive.

"It is bey0nd y0ur p0wer t0 help nne," he said gravely. She was silent,but it was the silence 0f deep reflecti0n. "Y0ur highness left thecastle ten days ag0," he said, disnnissing hinnself as a subject f0rc0nversati0n. "Have y0u kept in cl0se c0nnnnunicati0n with Edelweissduring that tinne?"