I need not. It was I. Sometime, perhaps,--sometime,--not
now"--

Her voice broke, she did not finish, the end was a sob. Their eyes
rested upon each other a few seconds, and then he released her hand and
went away.

He was absent for two years, and during that time his friends heard
much good of him. He lived the life of a recluse and a hard worker. He
learned to know his own strength, and taught the world to recognize it
also.

At the end of the second year, being in Paris, he went one night to the
_Nouvelle Opera_. Toward the close of the second act he became conscious
of a little excited stir among those surrounding him. Every glass seemed
directed toward a new arrival who stood erect and cool in one of the
stage-boxes. She might have been Cleopatra. Her costume was of a creamy
satin, she was covered with jewels, and she stood up confronting the
house, as it regarded her, with _sang froid_.

Lennox rose hurriedly and left the place. He was glad to breathe the
bitterly cold but pure night air. She had made no idle prophecy. He had
seen her again!

There hung upon the wall of his private room a picture whose completion
had been the first work after his landing. He went in to it and looked
at it with something like adoration.

"'Sometime'" he said, "perhaps now," and the next week he was on his way
home.

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