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ARIADNE. 93your avenger. Vengeanceis all that is left tous,but as God livesIwill give youthat."And he kissed the dust on which she stood, ashe swore.She looked down on him, startled and moved,and with the blood coming and goinginher face,and her eyesresting on him,bewildered, and inthe old dulness of half-conscious wonder.Then as he vowed his vow an electric thrillseemed to run through her, she put out herhands and thrust them against the air, as thoughthrusting him away." Myfriend! And you woulcl hurt him!"She muttered the words faintly:she was likea creature notfairly awake after a ghastly dream.Maryx rose slowly to his feet:all the passionof his pity and his pardon frozen inhis breast." Your avenger— andIwill take his life foryours," he answered slowly, as he stood erectbefore her, and his face, burned darker by thedesert sun,had a terrible look uponit.All the yearning and anguish of months andyears had gone out, as in one tempest-drivenflood,in the oath with which he had knelt clown