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But, again, he crushed her in his arms, and his voice rose triumphantly: "Sally, I have no prooing to let you take back--not while life lasts!"

Her laugh was the delicious music of happiness "I don't want to take

them back," she said Then, suddenly, she added, is now, and I've been to school a little I'norant, Samson, but I've started, and I reckon you can teach

me"

His voice choked Then, her hands strayed up, and clasped theh sorow again," he laughed But he wished that he had not had to

honest, he told her all about Adrienne

Lescott--even about how, after he believed that he had been outcast by

his uncle and herself, he had had his moments of doubt Now that it was

all so clear, now that there could never be doubt, he wanted the woirl whom he loved He loved

them both, but was in love with only one He wanted to present to Sally

the friend who had made him, and to the friend who had made him the

Sally of whom he was proud He wanted to tell Adrienne that now he

could answer her question--that each of the: they were friends of the rarer sort, who had for a

little ti their co on the stile, Sally held the rifle across her