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"Give it ed her shoulders "It's your

affair, not mine," she said "See it if you like, and keep it if you

like Cousin Hannibal wastes feords"

That was true, for the paper contained but a dozen or fifteen words, and

an initial by way of signature

"Ito-uard if he couess what use he has for a priest," she said "It is not to

confess hi, I fear, since Hannibal told his

beads"

M de Tignonville swore "I would I had the confessing of hilee "Why should you not?" she cried "Why

should you not? 'Tis time yet, since I am to send to-day and have not

sent Will you be the shaveling to go confess or nonville? The coill h the streets better than a

cut sleeve He will have both his wishes, lover and clerk in one then

And it will be pull azed at her, and as he gazed courage and hope awoke in his

eyes What if, after all, he could undo the past? What if, after all,

he could retrace the false step he had taken, and place hiain

where he had been--by her side?