The Red Seal Part 39

"How can I show my appreciation of your loyalty to me?"

"By being kind to Harry and Barbara." Helen smiled bravely, although her lips were trembling and for a moment she could not trust herself to speak. "My romance is over; Barbara's is just beginning. And, father, will you and Margaret come home with me--I am so lonely;" then turning blindly away she fairly ran out of the office.

"Go with her," said Rochester, a trifle unsteadily. "It has been a terrible ordeal; G.o.d help her to forget!" His voice failed and he swept his hand across his eyes as he held open the door into the corridor and followed McIntyre and his wife outside.

Kent turned impulsively to Barbara, and his arms closed around her as she raised her eyes to meet his, for she knew that the promise they spoke would be loyally fulfilled, and that her haven of love and happiness was reached at last.