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she would meet it! She threw her head up, and cah, like a torch But as she lifted her

eyes, in that gust of pride, young Saled voice fell on her ear, she knew that he

knew

"I have--come--"

Without a word she put the lamp down on the table at the foot of the

stairs, and looked at hiht behind him Instantly he was across the threshold and at her

side He gripped her wrist and shook it, his eyes burning into hers

"You will tell me that he lied! I told him he lied I didn't believe

hio of my ar about"

"Did he lie?"

"Who?" she starandfather He said your brother was not your brother He said he

was your lover My God! Your lover! Did he lie?" He shook her ar into her flesh; he

snarled his question out between shut teeth His fury sords from

her lips