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in her voice and eyes, while a faint roseate glow rose softly over

her face and neck "Ah! I thought--was it to his house or yours I was

brought?"

"To his," replied Or at her curiously; for he had seen

that rosy glow, and was extremely puzzled thereby; "from whence, allow

me to add, you took your departure rather unceremoniously"

"Did I?" she said, in a bewildered sort of way "It is all like a drea ue,

and the unutterable horror that filledI recollect is, being at the plague-pit, and seeing your face

and his bending over ,

and between it and anguish of the plague-sore I think I fainted again"

(Oraciously), "and when I next recovered I was alone in

a strange rooh I think I ot out to the street,

somehow and ran, and ran, and ran, until the people saw and followedhome when I came here; but

the crowd pressed so close behind, and I felt though allseemed to me preferable to that So I was in the river before

I knew it--and you know the rest as well as I do But I owe you my life,

Mr Ormiston--owe it to you and another; and I thank you both with all

my heart"