But, if this is HER side,
good heavens, what must HIS be! I had wondered what was sapping all
his buoyant youthfulness. To care for Jane would be an education;
but to have made Jane care! And then to have lost her! He must have
nerves of steel, to be facing life at all. What is this cross they
are both learning to kiss, and holding up between them? Perhaps
Niagara will sweep it away, and she will cable him from there."
Then the doctor took the dear little hand resting on his shoulder
and kissed it softly, while Jane's back was still turned. For the
doctor had had past experience of the cross, and now the pearls were
very precious.
So Jane took the prescription, and two years went by in the taking;
and here she was, on the top of the Great Pyramid, and, moreover,
she had done it in record time, and laughed as she thought of how
she should report the fact to Deryck.
Her Arabs lay around, very hot and shiny, and content. Large
backsheesh was assured, and they looked up at her with pleased
possessive eyes, as an achievement of their own; hardly realising
how large a part her finely developed athletic powers and elastic
limbs had played in the speed of the ascent.
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