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His voice grew aliveness! Yes! You have

sinned against me!"

She started and looked at him, open-eyed in her aht to have spoken to ht your accusation I could have explained it all; we should have

been married--and happy! And I should have been spared all these months

of unhappiness, this awful hell upon earth!"

He had struck the right note at last Convince a woman that she has been

cruel to you, and, if she loves you, the divine attribute of pity will

awaken in her, and bring her, who a moment before was as inflexible as

ada for breath, looked at hily, almost penitently

"Drake!" she breathed piteously

He sprang forward and caught her in his arms, and pressed a torrent of

kisses upon her lips, her hair

"Nell! My love, ain? Have I? Tell

me you believe ain!"

She fought hard to resist him; but when a man holds the wohts in vain Every sense in

her plays traitor, and fights on the man's side

Nell put her hands on his broad chest, and tried to hold him off; but he

would not be denied