The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 21 Page 24

like it. Only once it made me feel glad — when it led me to you and Frale that terrible moment. But it wasn’t a picture that time; it was a feeling that pulled me and made me go. I would have gone that time if I had died for it.”

He took her two hands and covered them with kisses, there in the darkness. “I told you you were my priestess of all that is good.”

“But I don’t want to be always seeing the shadows and foreboding. I want to be all happy — happy — the way you are.”

“I believe you are one of the blessed ones of God who have ‘the gift’; but you are right to feel as you do. Your life will be more normal and wholesome not to try to probe into the future. I’ll not attempt to take my coarser humanity into your holy places, dear.”