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"So was I," he blurted "Perhaps that's the--" He stood up suddenly

and held out his hand "Good-by, ood-by You

won't--I hope you won't co to detain hiet there, won't you, Robert?" she entreated

"I will, thank you Good-by"

How unlike Robert! The

ood-by," to such a request

He had evidently already taken leave of the people over at the house,

for he descended the steps and went to join Beaudelet, as out there

with an oar across his shoulder waiting for Robert They walked away

in the darkness She could only hear Beaudelet's voice; Robert had

apparently not even spoken a word of greeting to his co to hold back and to

hide, even from herself as she would have hidden fro--her Her eyes were brinized the symptoms of infatuation which she

had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and

later as a young wonancy of the revelation by any suggestion or pro to her; offered no lesson which she illing to

heed The future was a mystery which she never attenificant; was hers, to torture her as it was

doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she

had held, that she had been denied that which her i demanded