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"Why don't you go back?" she asked

Sara Lee looked at her piteously

"How can I? There is Harvey And the society would not send ain

It's over, Belle All over"

After a pause Belle said: "What's becoot up and went to the

"I don't knohere he is He may be dead"

Her voice was flat and lifeless Belle knew all that she wanted to know

She rose and gathered up her sewing

"I' to be rushed into a

wedding You're tired, and it's all nonsense Well, I'll have to run

now and dress the children"

That night Harvey and Belle had almost a violent scene He had taken

Sara Lee over the Leete house that evening Will Leete'shad , but very composed, until

she opened the door into a tiny room upstairs with a desk and a lamp

in it

"This was Will's study," she said "He did his work here in the