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Every mental path, those days, sohtedat the end of the long trail

Graha to work out his own salvation

He blundered, as youth always blunders, and after a violent scene with

Marion Hayden heintimacy

with Anna Klein--to find, as many aoff a loving woman was beyond him

The scene with Marion came one Sunday in the Spencer house, with Natalie

asleep up-stairs after luncheon, and Clayton walking off a sense of

irritation in the park He did not like the Hayden girl He could not

fathoirl He

had gone out, leaving theether, and Marion had launched her attack

fiercely

"Now!" she cried

"I couldn't coht That's all, Marion"

"It is certainly not all Why couldn't you come?"

"I worked late"

"Where?"

"At the plant"

"That's a lie, Graham I called the plant I'll tell you where you were

You were out with a girl You were seen, if you want to know it"