two weeks. We imagined all manner of things had happened to
you."

Kalonay laughed happily. "The Father was probably never safer
in his life," he said. "They took us to their hearts like
brothers. They might have suffocated us with kindness, but we
were in no other danger."

"Then you are encouraged, Father?" she asked, turning to the
priest. "You found them loyal? Your visit was all you hoped,
you can depend upon them?"

"We can count upon them absolutely," the monk assured her.
"We shall start on our return voyage at once, in a day, as
soon as his Majesty gives the word."

"There are so many things I want to know," the girl said; "but
I have no right to ask," she added, looking up at him
doubtfully.

"You have every right," the monk answered. "You have
certainly earned it. Without the help you gave us we could
not have moved. You have been more than generous----"

Miss Carson interrupted him with an impatient lifting of her
head. "That sort of generosity is nothing," she said. "With
you men it is different. You are all risking something. You
are actually helping, while I must sit still and wait. I
hope, Father," she said, smiling, "it is not wrong for me to
wish I were a man."