Drene laughed: "I never saw my wife again. Did that help me? Inever saw her again, but as long as she lived I knew what she was. . . My wife. And when she died, still my wife. There was norelief--no relief."

Graylock, deathly black, framed his haggard face between his handsand stayellow at nothing:

"I know," he exclaimed. "I understand now. I am here to-night to paythe reckoning."