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engine--and the constables are good to me I just came up here to--" she

hesitated, then added--"to see you alone for a ht little pupil, in her life--and--"

the flippancy hich she wasbroke and she

added, in a shaken voice as she thrust out her hand, man-fashion--"and

to say, God keep you, boy"

He seized the hand in both his own, and gripped it hard He tried to

speak, but only shook his head with a rueful s at the door with the car," she told him, as she left

Horton, too, came in to volunteer assistance

"Wilfred," said Saly, 'there isn't any ht But this isn't exactly that sort

Where I'ot to be invisible No, you can't help,

now Coanize Horton, South and Co"

"South, Horton and Co," corrected Wilfred; "native sons first"

At that -mooted

question Of course, she had not It wasthe i at the

expense of the one as left Still, as she sat in the car waiting,

her world see into chaos under her feet, and, when Samson

had taken his place at her side, the e of speed