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Sara Lee stood up and tried to smile

"Please don't worry aboutto do, that's

all You see, I've been worrying for so long If I can get to work and

try to make up I'll not be so hopeless But I am not quite hopeless,

either," she added hastily It was as though by the very word she had

consigned Henri to death "You see, I aht he will come across from the other side, out

of the dark"

Mr Travers took her back to the hotel When he returned fro across at the square

"Do you remember," she asked him, "the time when the little donkey was

hurt over there?"

"I shall never forget it"

"And the young officer who ran out when I did, and shot the poor thing?"

Mr Travers re of"