sist her a moment longer. What was this madness of love?

"We'll be happy," she whispered. "Oh, I know. Come!--come!-come!"

Her eyes were closing, heavy-lidded, and she lifted sweet, tremulous,
waiting lips.

With bursting heart Duane bent to them. Then he held her, close pressed
to him, while with dim eyes he looked out over the line of low hills
in the west, down where the sun was setting gold and red, down over the
Nueces and the wild brakes of the Rio Grande which he was never to see
again.

It was in this solemn and exalted moment that Duane accepted happiness
and faced a new life, trusting this brave and tender woman to be
stronger than the dark and fateful passion that had shadowed his past.

It would come back--that wind of flame, that madness to forget, that
driving, relentless instinct for blood. It would come back with those
pale, drifting, haunting faces and the accusing fading eyes, but all his
life, always between them and him, rendering them powerless, would be
the faith and love and beauty of this noble woman.

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