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"Stop that man, father You'll be sorry if you do not! He must stay!"

"Come back here!" shouted Marston

Mayo looked behind

The er on the push-button "Come back, I say!"

"I protest This is none ofelse

than to listen to your daughter's private affairs"

"You come back!" commanded the father in low tones of menace, "or I'll

have you held for the United States ing within hiirl,

Captain Mayo walked slowly to the desk; it occurred to hiet out of Julius Marston's office as it was to get in

"I would never have cohter

would tell you what she has I am in a false position I insist that you

allow et to the botto! Now, Al the word you apply to it," she replied, facing him

resolutely "I did it--and I don't knohy I did it!"

"Did what?"

"I ran away I did it because the girls dared me to do it I promised a