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stern-mannered man She had always been just a little afraid of him,

with the fear which is always felt by the false and shifty in the

presence of the true and strong; and to-night she was painfully

conscious of that vague and wholesome dread

He found a place for her at a ss to eat and drink; but though she affected a blythe and joyous

un again,

she was too excited, too anxious, to enjoy the costly delicacies before

her

"I have so much to tell you, Drake!" she said, in a low voice, after one

or two rees,

since I saw you! Why--why did you go away for so long, Drake? And why

did you not write to rave eyes, and her own fell

"I wrote to no one; I was never ," he

said

"But to me, Drake!" she whispered, with a pout "I wanted to hear froiven ----"