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She had come and leaned close to him over the outspread chart, her

breath on his cheek--so close to hi tress of her hair

flicked him But because a sudden fire had leaped from the touch to his

brain was no reason for the act by which he had just damned himself as a

presumptuous brute

For he, Boyd Mayo, captain of her father's yacht, a hireling, had just

paid the sa courtship to Alirl on the street

"I'll jump overboard," he staht forever"

The oive iven

Tell them I was insane--and jumped overboard That will be the truth I

ah the door In that desperate moment, in the whirl

of his emotions, there seemed to be no other way out of his horrible

predica

passion of his soul, realizing fully his blind folly at the sa of that love--even betraying

it by a glance--he had sheathed himself in the armor of reserved

constraint; he had been sure that he sooner would have gone down on his