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"I'll cos I don't

want you to sit alone in that forsaken boarding-house and mope" He

drew out a bill-fold, and extracted some notes "Don't be silly,"

he protested, as she drew back "It's the only way I can get back my

self-respect You owe it towas better than going back to the

cottage on the hill, and to that heavy brooding figure, and the strap on

the wall But the taking of the ht her She did not know it, nor did he But

hitherto she had been her own, earning her own livelihood What she gave

of love, of sifts

From that time she was his creature In her creed, which was the creed

of the girls on the hill, one did not receive without giving She would

pay hiive was herself

"You'll co was very noticeable now He felt war

"Of course I'll come to see you," he said, recklessly "You take a

little tiether"