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Then she had voluntarily left Julian, perhaps to seek hio back to hi but my life to have you for myself!"

"You must not think of me in that way!" she commanded him vehemently

"I aet it, I

will go out into the streets and ask the Idumeans to kill me!"

"Nay, peace, peace! I shall do you no har that you would not have me do! Be comforted Not any one in

all the world has your happiness at heart so much as I Believe me!"

"Believe me!" she insisted "I anize me as that which I claim to be Answer me!

You do believe I am the wife of Philadelphus?"

"I believed it, at once," he said frankly

"Then--then--" but she flung her hands over her face and slipped down

on the rugs For athe impulse to

break over the li one of the woe in

the crypt, sent her to reirl, and departed, shaken and

uncertain, to his own place