And the day-died!
The sun sank beneath the western horizon; the moon cast her silvery sheen over the weary world; the twinkling stars appeared in the jewelled diadem of night; and the silence of evening settled over mountain and lake and swaying tree, while the two who had dared all things for the sake of this one day, looked into each other's eyes now with a sudden realization of the end.
They had not allowed themselves once to think of the hour of separation.
And now it was upon them! And they were not ready to part.
"How do people say good-by forever, Paul?-people who love as we love? How do they say it, dear? Tell me!"
"But it is not forever, Opal. Don't you know that you will always be part of my life-my soul-life, which is the only true one-its sanctifying inspiration? You must
