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"I do not believe that one drop of your blood runs inhis hands flat on the cloth, then gripping

it fiercely in clenched fists:

"All I want of you is as ave h for me to

wear If it be hers only, or if it was also itie!

I will keep it, Colonel Arran I a and unclenching his hands--then drew

a deep, agonised breath:

"I suppose you have ht have

dealt more mercifully with my mother As for what you have done to

ally itimate son than the son of any woman who ever lived within

the la may I have her letters?"

"Is that your decision, Berkley?"

"It is I want only her letters from you--and any little

keepsakes--relics--if there be any----"

"I offer to recognise you asthat you mean to be just--and perhaps

kind--God knohat you dothe dead for a son

to look back upon----"