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"It will be the half hour after four, Captain I a home; shall I

have your coht Make a thousand regrets to Madaravity was unendurable He turned fro passionate exclamations, went to the river-bank

for a boat Often he had seen Katherine between five and six o'clock at

the foot of the Van Heearden; for it was then possible for her

to slip ahile mada over their own affairs And this evening he felt that

the very intensity of his desire -place behind the lilac hedge

Whether he was right or wrong, he did not consider; for he was not one

of those potent men who have themselves in their oer Nor had it

ever entered his th standeth in love's

sacrifice," or that the only love worthy of the na that is low or vindictive or clandestine And, even if he

had not loved Katherine, he would now have been determined to marry her

Never before in all his life had he found an object so engrossing Pride

and revenge were added to love, as er or sweeter for the as only such deep natures can

suffer There are domestic fatalities which the wisest and tenderest of

parents seem impotent to contend with Joris had certainly been alarhter to visit Mrs

Gordon, and in perht he had

assured her safety Through all the past weeks, he had seen no shadow on

her face The fear had died out, and the hope had been slowly growing;