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Thinking of that gratitude, the tears dried upon Helena's cheeks, hot

with the firelight and with her thoughts "Suppose she had lived just

a little longer?--just three years longer? Where would her gratitude

have been then?" Helena's face overfloith sudden gay malice, but

below the malice eariness "You are happy now--aren't you?" Saht had said Why, yes, certainly Frederick had "repented," as

Dr King expressed it; she had seen to his "repentance"! That in

itself was so flame of happiness

Enough one otten the baby At first she had believed that she could forget

hi she had been at

twenty-one to think that any one could forget! She snorance; but his tenderness had been so

passionately convincing,--and how good he had been about the baby! He

had let her talk of hiot a little tired of the subject, and naturally It was Frederick's

baby! And Lloyd hated Frederick as much as she did How they used to