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Samatically set, and his voice was

soft, as he said sied to you"

Farbish had hoped for , but, as he walked home,

he told himself that the sphinx-like features had been a ether held potentially for a

clash He was judge enough of character to know that Samson's morbid

pride would seal his lips as to the interview--until he met Horton

In point of fact, Samson was at first only deeply wounded That

through her kindness to hiht his battles

with a close friend he had never suspected Then, slowly, a bitterness

began to rankle, quite distinct froht of suspicion and tendency to foster hatreds had gradually

been falling asleep under the disaran to stir in hiuely, but forcibly, and to trouble

him

Samson did not appear at the Lescott house for teeks after that

He had begun to think that, if his going there gave eirl who had been kind to hi here," he told himself, bitterly "I reckon everybody

that knowsat me

behind my back"