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"Are you ive hi there to--to shoot you,

I think!"

And, after we had gone on some little way, I spoke

"Was that why you--came to meet me?"

"Yes"

"And--kept so close beside me"

"Yes"

"Ah, yes, to be sure!" said I, and walked on in silence; and now

I noticed that she kept as far fro ain, sir?"

"No," I answered; "no"

"You see, I had no other way Had I told you that there was a

one to look, and then

--so dreadful would have happened"

"How came you to knoas there?"

"Why, after I had prepared supper I climbed that steep path which

leads to the road and sat down upon the fallen tree that lies

there, to watch for you, and, as I sat there, I saw aman?"

"Yes, very tall he seee While I ondering at this, I heard your step on