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"About hi

which, although it's a thing in your own heart, you have never quite

known?"

She nodded, and he went on

"The thing which you call fascination inqualities in me that were really his

qualities Just because you had known hie Because he could turn 'to woman the

heart of a woman,' you failed to see that under it was the 'iron and

fire' You thought you saw those qualities inhickory over there When he was getting

anony, he didn't mention theer was real, because

they tried to have me kill him--and if I'd been the man they took me

for, I reckon I'd have done it I was ht--for

a minute I don't hold a brief for Wilfred, but I know that you liked

ly as I--and h raised to gentle