road was sufficiently traveled to make it more than likely that they would meet motorists from town; and surely Evalani had suffered enough from malicious tongues so that he must not selfishly add the least shadow of motive for further gossip. And so now, should he see her, he must not follow her; but could only await her return to say the few words which he must say or continue to suffer untold agonies of mind.
For several days she failed to appear; and then, one afternoon, rather later than had been usual, he saw the flick of her yellow frock as she came out upon the curve and faced the mountain wind which ruffled her hair and tossed the fragrant lei of stephanotis and mulang blossoms which she so loved to wear about her neck. In the old days, she always used to turn at this point and wave to him, and he watched, hoping against hope, that she would do so today; but she did not turn her head, only kept steadily on and rounded the curve without a backward glance. It seemed to him, even at that distance, that she looked more frail and less buoyant than of old, and met the wind with less resistance of her slender form. Also, he missed seeing her strain at the leash of the big police dog, for he no longer accompanied her upon these walks since the stealing of the little boy; being left to guard the home whenever she was abroad; and someway it seemed to Dick that his absence made her seem pa-
