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That long graceful figure stretched on the sand was speaking What was

it in his voice that drew her so htily from any terror that

possessed her at any ti her

She obeyed hiets worse as he approaches the city I think I ought to leave

him It will not be safe to be near him when his moneyed lady claims

him for her own!"

"She--she--" Laodice burst out, "is--may be such a woman!"

"Such a woman as you! No; she will not be That is what makes him bad

And now that I bethink me, perhaps it is just as well that you proceed

to Jerusaleht of you, now and

then"

"I? I comfort him?" she exclaimed

"Bywives!

Perchance your husband could have got on as ithout so radiant a

spouse, whilefriend must needs be paired with

a--Alas! there is too enuine dejection in his voice and when she looked

down at hier and more sorrowful than

she believed they could be He was hurting hihtened at the sudden tenderness

that his pathetic gaze had wakened in her