Vienna, and they had shown him favor. He had known other women
not so fine. Spanish-American senoritas through Central and
South America, the wives and daughters of English merchants
exiled along the Pacific coast, whose fair skin and yellow hair
whitened and bleached under the hot tropical suns. He had known
many women, and he could have quoted

``Trials and troubles amany,
Have proved me;
One or two women, God bless them!
Have loved me.''

But the woman he was to marry must have all the things he lacked.

She must fill out and complete him where he was wanting. This
woman possessed all of these things. She appealed to every
ambition and to every taste he cherished, and yet he knew that he
had hesitated and mistrusted her, when he should have
declared himself eagerly and vehemently, and forced her to listen
with all the strength of his will.


Miss Langham dropped among the soft cushions of the launch with a
sense of having been rescued from herself and of delight in
finding refuge again in her own environment. The sight of King
standing in the bow beside Hope with his cigarette hanging from
his lips, and peering with half-closed eyes into the fading
light, gave her a sense of restfulness and content. She did not
know what she wished from that other strange young man. He was
so bold, so handsome, and he looked at life and spoke of it in