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porthole curtained, West saw on the diirl whoout over the black

waters; and, ildly beating heart, he approached her, not knowing

what to say, but feeling that a start --" he began "But I want to tell you--"

She turned, startled; and then smiled an odd little s your pardon," she said "I haven't oing to be arranged to-morrow Mrs

Tommy Gray says you crossed with theirl replied coldly

"Of course! But Mrs Gray is a darling--she'll fix that all right I

just want to say, before to-morrow comes--"

"Wouldn't it be better to wait?"

"I can't! I'o down in a

minute and tell the purser that Maybe he'll throw me overboard; maybe

he'll lock me up I don't knohat they do with people like me Maybe

they'll make a stoker ofyou again So that's why I want to say now--I'ination It carried me away--really it did!

I didn't ot

started--You know, don't you, that I love you with all my heart? Fro I--"