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"To be sure; but there are times-"

"Yes, there are times when the odds seem rather

heavy I have noticed that myself"

She smiled, but for an instant the sad look caested

another time and place

"I want you to come back," I said boldly, for the

train was very near, and I felt that the eyes of the Sisters

were upon us "You can not go ahere I shall

not find you!"

I did not knoho this girl was, her home, or her

relation to the school, but I knew that her life and

ely; that her eyes were blue,

and that her voice had called toanother ti

looked into her eyes, haunted ; she was at once so frank and so

guarded,-breeding and the taste and training of an

ampler world than that of Annandale were so evidenced

in the witchery of her voice, in the grace and ease that

ray tone of hat,