The girl's face darkened instantly and her breath came quickly.

"You--you think that I am the reason? Is it so? Because I am here
in these hateful clothes? You would say that to me? How dare you!"

She burst out with tears of rage and shame and fled from his sight.

Jane came rapidly through the church door, out of the gloom and
odour into the warm sunshine and the green glow of the world, her
face bright, her eyes gleaming.

"He is conscious!" she cried. "He knows me!"






CHAPTER XXVI

THE SEPARATION OF HEARTS





When Graydon Bansemer opened his eyes upon the world for the second
time--it was as if he had been born again--he looked up into the
eager, wistful face of Jane Cable. It was too much for her to expect