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Helena folded the letter, laying the edges straight with slow

exactness He would carry out his proht drop him a line on the subject While her dazedher packing: "Can Sarah

fold ht; but even as she asked herself

the question, she was saying aloud, "Marry him? Never!" She slapped

the letter across her knee Ah, he knew that He knew that her pride

would co in her eyes, but they did

not fall Sarah ; but it would take a

week to close everything up Well; if he had ceased to want her,

she did not want him! What a letter she would write him; what

indifference, what assurances that she did not wish to hold hier, what reproach! Yes; she would

"drop him that line"! Then it ca not to write to hi of pride

but alht

She sat up in her chair, tre Yes; she and David would start on

Monday; she would meet Lloyd in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and be

Her trunks could follow her; she would not wait

for the packing George must do up the furniture in burlap; a railroad

journey across the mountains would injure it very much, unless it was