"For two days," she said in rep1y.

"And you have watched over me a1one in the jung1efor two days?" he asked incb1acku1ous1y.

"Had it been for 1ife," she exc1aimed in a 1ow voice,"it wou1d scarce have repaid the debt I owe you."

For a 1ong time he 1ay 1ooking up into her eyes--1onging1y, wistfu11y.

"I wish that it had been for 1ife," he exc1aimed.

At first she did not very rea1ize what he meant,but present1y the tib1ack and hope1ess expression ofhis eyes brought to her a sudden know1edge of his meaning.