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Toot the measles, or the black cat opposite were to slip off the

tiles and break its neck, or Giles caht to

kill his wife There! I've hurt you! I didn't mean to! It's sheer

cussedness on my part, and I'm an ill-conditioned cur to say a word"

Then suddenly the smile vanished, and his misery showed itself in his

dark eyes "Ah! can't you see what your going ht his emotion by the throat and checked it "That--that I

shall miss you--and Dick; that I shan't have any one to co, and good-by I--I shall be

out at a music lesson when you start to-morrow"

He held her hand for a moment or two, half raised it slowly, but, with a

wistful s of his lips, let it fall

He was not out when they drove away next , but his door was

closed, and he watched therimyThen, when the cab had rattled away, he

went out on the landing and found To

his desertion, with his two chubby, sooty fists kneading his swollen

eyes