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The feeling that they had exchanged recognition possessed him

like a madness, like a torment How could he be sure, what

confirmation had he? The doubt was like a sense of infinite

space, a nothingness, annihilating He kept within his breast

the will to surety They had exchanged recognition

He walked about in this state for the next few days And then

again like a h the coentle with man and beast, but he

dreaded the starkness of disillusion cropping through again

As he was standing with his back to the fire after dinner a

few days later, he saw the wo He wanted to know that

she knew him, that she are He wanted it said that there

was so,

looking at her as she went down the road He called to

Tilly

"Who ht that be?" he asked

Tilly, the cross-eyed woladly to theto look She was glad when he asked her for

anything She craned her head over the short curtain, the little

tight knob of her black hair sticking out pathetically as she

bobbed about

"Oh why"--she lifted her head and peered with her

twisted, keen brown eyes--"why, you knoho it

is--it's her froe--you know--"