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pronounced it Saralie "He has done a very cruel thing Do you still

love him?"

Sara Lee shut her eyes

"I don't know I think I do He is very unhappy, and it is o, Henri The "

But he still held her arm

"Does he love you as I love you?" he demanded "Would he die for you?"

"That's rather silly, isn't it? Men don't die for the people they love"

"I would die for you, Saralie"

She eyed him rather helplessly

"I don't think you y that, for he drew her to

him His arid

Sara Lee who found she could not free herself

"I would die for you, Saralie!" he repeated fiercely "That would be

easier, far, than living without you There is nothing thatI have--my honor, my life, my

hope of eternity--on one side of the scale and you on the other And I

would choose you Is that love?" He freed her