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"You wish to know ifis an e "You will be disowned just as I proer, to carry through with your threats Will you forget I airl, I have no son"

"We have said all there is to say" Austin stood to leave, and turned back as he reached the doorway "I will pack s immediately"

"Austin, You may want to reconsider your decision after I tell you what you are now forcing me to say"

"I'm not interested in any further discussion"

"Fine, then listen and you will understand all there is to know about the girl you choose to love and why I forbid it"

"I know all I want to know, and I have full understanding of your rejection to her social status"

"Oh, no" she snorted a giggle "It is lazed over "Your Hayley Lawrence is not who you think she is"

"What are you talking about?"

Mrs So a table in the foyer She walked over to Austin and whispered in his ear

Austin quickly pulled away "That is i lies, so I will marry a woman of your choice"

"I would not lie to you about such a thing" Austin turned away

"Surely you are no longer planning to leave, when I can produce proof that what I speak is the truth"

He left the roo in disbelief

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A week later at the Lawrence estate: "I had a visitor this week at the dock" Mr Lawrence leaned back from his empty dinner plate and reached for his pipe With his eyes fixed on Hayley, he suess who it was"

"I know of no one ould be at the dock, Father"

"You ht say it is not a place he usually frequents"

"The only man I care to know about is Austin"

"Yes" Mr Lawrence tried to keep a laugh fro his throat, as he watched the nonchalant look on Hayley's face turn to excite there?"