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And he understood wo the ages-old plea which has softened feminine rancor ever since

the Sabine woave

their captors

She stared at hi man who had offered himself so humbly as a sacrifice His brown

hands were crossed in front of him and clutched convulsively his white

cap The cap and the linen above the collar of his uniforht

out to the full the hue of his manly tan The red flush of his shocked

contrition touched his cheeks, and, all in all, whatever the daughter of

Julius Marston, Wall Street priest of high finance, ave him from under lowered eyelids

indicated her appreciation of his outward excellencies

"I suppose you are thoroughly and properly ashamed of what you have

done!"

"I am ashamed--so ashaain I will do what I promised I will jump overboard"

"Captain Mayo, look at me!"

When he obeyed, with the demeanor of a whipped hound, his perturbation

would not allow him to show as much appreciation of her as she had

displayed in the secret study of him, which she now promptly concealed

He surveyed her wistfully, with fear And a maiden, after she has

understood that she has obtained mastery over brawn and soul, does not