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"Why, father, what do you mean?" asked David in aone to Belden

"Now, listen, all of you," and again he thundered on the table with his

fist "Last sue

woht I have been imposed on--she is an imposter, an adventuress"

"Amasy, Amasy, don't be so hard on her," pleaded his wife But the

Squire had the true huntsman's instinct--when he went out to hunt, he

went out to kill

"The ti his

wife's pleading, "when this houn her preparation to go She took her cloak down

fro and wrapped it about her without a word

"Father, if Anna goes, I go with her," and David rose to his feet, the

very incarnation of wrath, and strode over to where Anna stood apart

froly, and stood there

defiant of them all

"David, you must be mad What, you, a son of mine, defy your father

here in the presence of your friends for that--adventuress?"