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She raised her eyes and glanced at hiht that was her only reason for breaking the engageht if you sentto hope that you won't do so It is but the

shadow--the gli to it, for it means so

much to me--so much!"

There was silence for a moment, then he went on: "I left Shorne Mills that day, and I sailed in the _Seagull_, determined

that I would accept your sentence, that I would never harass or worry

you, that, if it were possible, you should never be troubled by the

sight of e with et you, but I could not I have never ceased

to love you; not for a single day have you been absent fro for you!"

She looked at hi her emotion

There was truth in his accents, in his eyes Had he forgotten Lady

Lucille?

"There was no more wretched and unhappy man on God's earth than I was at

that time," he went on "Nell, if you had been called upon to find a

punishh for the deceit which I practiced, I do not think