see, my lady, I love to sit beneath the shadow of the wall you
describe. It will require a royal edict to compel me to abandon
my position."

"You cannot expect the Princess to drive you from her country,
--you who have done so much for her. You must go, Mr. Lorry,
without her bidding."

"I must?"

"Yes, for your presence outside that wall may make the
imprisonment all the more unendurable for the one your love
cannot reach. Do you understand me?"

"Has the one behind the wall instructed you to say this to me?"
he asked miserably.

"She has not. I do not know her heart, but I am a woman and have
a woman's foresight. If you wish to be kind and good to her,
go!"

"I cannot!" he exclaimed, his pent feelings bursting forth. "I
cannot go!"

"You will not be so selfish and so cruel as to increase the
horror of the wreck that is sure to come," she said, drawing
back.

"You know, Countess, of the life-saving crews who draw from the
wrecks of ships lives that were hopelessly lost? There is to be