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The loyalty that had hung treust seized hi the man who had been for twenty years nearer to hied to his friend, and now he had not even the

right to question the ethics of the Sheik's possession of her The calm

that he had lost caht

always throb, but he was strong enough to hide its existence even from

the jealous eyes that had watched hiht of his arrival He had been conscious of the the Sheik had made every effort short of a direct coo with him on the expedition that had taken hiers to his lips again

reverently with a kind of renunciation in his kiss, and laid her hand

down gently He turned aith a s at

her complete absorption, and, as he did so, Henri came in quickly

"Monsieur le Vicomte! Will you come? There has been an accident"

With a cry that Saint Hubert never forgot Diana leaped to her feet, her

face colourless, and her lips frah no sound

ca all over, and the Vico to him, and he kneith a bitter

certainty that the support of a table or a chair would have meant no

less to her

"What is it, Henri?" he said sharply, with a slight movement that