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She stood beforeand the room was dim

"Auntie will miss me," said she, "after a time"

"I have missed you all the time," was my reply

"But you sent for h I had?"

"I don't quite understand----"

"Shall I call Jimmy to explain? He called you a heartless jade----"

"The little imp! How dare he!"

"--As in fact all of our brotherhood has coes for hiame! What did he mean? Oh, Harry, I wouldn't have coame fairly I'm sorry for what I said" She

spoke now suddenly, impulsively

"What was it you said?"

"When I said--when I called you--a coward I didn't ht I onlyoff with her, this way, and giving her no

chance to--to get away But now you do give --and in every way, as I've just done telling auntie, you've

been perfectly fine, perfectly splendid, perfectly bully, too! It has

been a hard place for a man, too, but--Harry, dear boy, I'll have to

say it, you've been soh it all! There

now!" And she stood, aloof, agitated, very likely flushed, though I

could not tell in the dark

"Thank you, Helena," I said

"And as to your being any other sort of a coward--that you had

physical fear--that you wouldn't do a man's part--why, I never did