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was probably eavesdropping all the tiht Myra

She was amazed that she should have been able to sleep soundly after

her emotional ordeal, until she remembered that when at last Don Carlos

had desisted in his attempt to make her surrender herself voluntarily

and had left her, Madre Dolores had reappeared and insisted upon her

drinking soent cordial, which probably contained so

When the mists of sleep cleared away completely fros, but her predoainst the man who had made love to her so lawlessly

and had alled with her resent

dread that her ordeal of the previous nightworse The hot flush of shaain as

she realised she had been on the very verge of surrendering herself

"I hate him! I hate him!" Myra told herself as she dressed "I'll

kill loat over his

conquest What should I do? Should I promise to marry him on

condition that he takes me back to-day, and then denounce him to the

authorities e reach the Castle? That would be so like

treachery, but it was treachery on his part to kidnap uest I shall wait and see how he behaves before deciding"