Chapter 22 EMLYN'S TROTH.

"Woman's love is writ in water,

Woman's faith is traced in sand."

AYTOUN.

Day after day Steadfast Kenton lingered between life and death, and though the external wound healed, there was little relief to the deeper injury which could not be reached, and which the damps and chills of autumn and winter could only aggravate.

He could move l