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" She echoed " Why? " and gazed across the sea, As though the winds and waves might tell a tale Why waters wet, why breezes chill the blood, Or why the loadstone hungers for its steel ! Again, in tremulous, deep-chested tone For both their sakes he craved full confidence. " Why ?" she re-echoed " Why ? " Then cast abroad An eye of horror, lest the leaves should hear, And clutched his arm and gasped : " The ' Why' is guilt ! And God avenges guilt. The hour has come — Now, even now — Oh, save me,... Beryl, save ! Look ! " Beryl answered her " I see a man. Approaching. Thin is he, one-handed, pale. No dread avenging angel from on high ! " But Marie rigid, faint, with heaving breast ; " Fly. He will kill us. Beryl. I was his ! " A trice and Hal confronted them. A trice. And Beryl felt the smart of injury. The sting of insult. At Hal's feet Marie FORCE MAJEURE. [63 Fell as a Magdalen before her Christ. Then Beryl, though his majesty might crush A man one-handed, had he willed it so, With knightly courtesy held forth his glove, And with " Enough !— my gage — we meet !" bestowed The symbol of his blood Hal coveted ; Who grasped the challenge, flinging loud of throat : " Now !
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