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She interrupted hi her face to his,

for the first ti his tanned cheek

with swift, cold lips

He laughed disdainfully "Bon Dieu! Has the hot sun of the

desert taught you no better than that? Have you learned so little from

me? Has the vile clihly that nothing can land

who has the power to turn you frory snarl

She clenched her hands with the pain of his words "There is no one,"

she muttered, "but I--I don't feel like that"

"You had better learn," he said thickly "I a her corasp he covered her face with fierce, burning kisses

And for the first ti to hi him kiss for kiss with an absolute abandon of

all resistance At last he let her go, panting and breathless, and

leaped up, drawing his hand across his eyes

"You go to er,

and shrugging his shoulders moved across the tent to the chest where

the spare aran to clean it