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when they were alone

"What did I say? Oh, yes, about the love letters Well, what

difference does it make whether I meant it or not?"

"It makes all the difference in the world toblue eyes, and he

"Don't answer yet, Kate; don't giveher hand "Think it over; take as long as you like

Hope with you is better than certainty with any other wo town on business for

the past two or three days, walked into the middle of this little

tableau in time to hear the last sentence Kate and Sanderson had

failed to hear hilected to rerossed with each

other

Though his rival's declaration, which he had every reason to suppose

would be accepted, was the death blow to his hopes, yet he unselfishly

stepped out into the snoaited five minutes by his watch--a liberal

allowance for an acceptance, he considered--and then rapped loud and

theatrically before entering a second tio

further?