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turned to them: "You have hunted me down, you have found out that I

have been a mother, that I am without the protection of a husband's

nah for you--your duty stopped at the scandal

Why did you not find out that I was a young, inexperienced girl as

betrayed by a ht myself an honorable

wife--why should your duty stop in hunting down a defenseless girl

while the uest in your

house to-night?"

She was gone--David, who had been stunned by his father's words, ran

after her, but the whirling flakes had hidden every trace of her, and

the howling wind drove back his cry of "Anna, Anna! co the door between her and the

Squire's family; the white flame of her wrath seeh the snowdrifts, unconscious

of the cold and storm She had no words in which to fornity of her treatuished and she was but the incarnation of

wronged woh Heaven for justice