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you intend to use your influence to keep hio That is putting a very terrible responsibility

on me"

He heard her draw her breath sharply

"If you do that I shall leave you," she said, in a frozen voice

Suddenly he felt sorry for her She was so weak, so childish, so

cowardly And this was the nearest they had come to a complete break

"You're tired and nervous," he said "We have co way fro, to-night, does not bring two people

together--"

"Together!" she cried shrilly "When have we been together? Not

in years You have been married to your business I am only your

housekeeper, and Graha to take

away frohts that were alreat had forht live ht be better than to

live oneself; that he loved his country, although he had been sha-pot of the world, and

that, perhaps, only the white flareat

nation

But Natalie hts tawdry She cheapened the fine; therefore there was probably nothing fine in

hiht