Page 148 (2/2)

beside him for a while lest he should awake Then she went down to the

porch and faced the situation

Soot up and walked about; sometimes sat down, her elbows

on her knees, her forehead in her hands, one foot tapping, tapping,

tapping Her first idea was flight: she o at once By to-morrow, everybody would know

She would write Lloyd that she would await hio to a hotel" she told herself Of course, it was possible that

Sarandfather had done,

but it was not probable And even if he did, his knowledge made the

place absolutely unendurable to her; she could not bear it for a day--

for an hour! Yes; she ht; and-Suddenly, into the midst of this horrible personal alarm, came, like

an echo, Sam's last words The memory of them was so clear that it was

almost as if he uttered theh of what? Of loving her? Ah, yes; he was cured

now of all that But was that what he h of it"

Helena Richie leaped to her feet It see slowly back to her heart There was no pain now in those

nail-marks; there was no pain in her crushed huh of it"