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"Anton?" she said

"What?" he answered

She held hiain with hers

"Don't leaveher in his are that she

was not under his spell nor his influence He wanted to go away

fro

away, his life was really elsewhere His life was

elsewhere--his life was elsewhere--the centre of his

life was not what she would have She was different--there

was a breach between them They were hostile worlds

"You will come back to me?" she reiterated

"Yes," he said And he meant it But as one keeps an

appoint to his fulfilment

So she kissed him, and went indoors, lost He walked down to

the Marsh abstracted The contact with her hurt him, and

threatened him He shrank, he had to be free of her spirit For

she would stand before hiel before Balaa, into a

wilderness

The next day she went to the station to see hio She

looked at hie

and null--so null He was so collected She thought it was

that whichhe was