Chapter 29 THE BARGAIN.

Like plants in mines which never saw the sun,

But dream of him and guess where he may be,

And do their best to climb and get to him.

"Oh yes," Barlasch was saying, "it is easier to die-it is that that you are thinking-it is easier to die."

Desiree did not answer. She was sitting in the little kitchen at the back of the house in the Frau