Page 104 (2/2)

ardour, found herself crushed in a close e kissed, and

kissed, and kissed

She struggled, broke free, and scrambled to her feet, her brain in a

turmoil, and al

exultantly

"Myra, darling, surely you can no longer persist in pretending you do

not love me," he exclaimed breathlessly "If you hated me, as you

professed, you would have let Standish try to fire a second time I

have put you to the test and proved that you loveeazed at him

wide-eyed

"But--but aren't you wounded?" she sta, Myra, but I blaer," answered Don Carlos "If only I had waited, pretending

for a few , you would have confessed

your love But your kiss so fired ain exultantly and made a movement as if to sweep Myra

into his arer and resent been fooled swiftly succeeded her bewildernation