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"Yes Sister Theresa was her guardian Her father

was a dear friend, and I knew her fro Pickering

,-they both lived in New York and

moved in the same circle"

"But it doesn't explain her efforts to help him, does

it?" I blazed "He wished to marry her,-Sister

Theresa told ation here-I ran away to follow her!"

"Ah, to be sure! You were away Christmas Eve,

when those vandals broke in Bates ot as I caht I assuet a little Christ about it"

"But I had followed her-I went to Cincinnati to see

her She dared me to come-it was a trick, a part of

the conspiracy to steal your property"

The old gentlerow calry

"She dared you to come, did she! That is quite like

Marian; but you didn't have to go, did you, Jack?"

"Of course not; of course I didn't have to go, but-"

I stammered, faltered and ceased Mee I saw her on the

stairway at the Arhter, I felt the ain the exquisite delight of being near her My

heart told lad I'raveyard with nobody to exercise the right of

guardianship over you I've had s about

you; I used to think you were a born tra your back on architecture,-the

noblest of all professions; but this performance of yours

really beats theirl like

Marian Devereux isn't likely to becoent of any

rascal? Do you really believe for a ht forfeit your

rights toto find those notes of his?