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way to California,-and without you!"

She spoke hurriedly, eagerly, bending toward me

"No-you don't know-you don't understand-he's

here; he abandoned his California trip at Chicago; he

telegraphed o at once,-at once!"

"Ah, but you can't frightenwith Pickering in that house

ht mean

"No,"-she looked anxiously about,-"they were to

arrive late, he and the Taylors; they know the Ars

quite well They o!"

"But I have only a few minutes myself,-you

wouldn't have me sit thes I have co and I are not afraid of each other!"

"But you must not meet him here! Think what that

would mean to me! You are very foolhardy, Mr Glenarm

I had no idea you would coed hed, ht-"

"Yes, what did you think?" I asked "That I was

tied hand and foot by a dead man's money?"

"No, it wasn't that wretched fortune; but I enjoyed

playing the child before you-I really love Olivia-and

it seea child to the very end of the chapter

without any realof it I wish

I were Olivia!" she declared, her eyes away from me