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"He is very proud," she said, a little proudly herself

"I know, I know; but hein that direction, and I will But for him! Ah, Nell, I don't

like to think of it; I don't like to conteether Yes; I owe him a debt no man

could hope to repay I wish it had been I who had lived at Beaus and played the violin to you, instead of hiull_, or wandering about Asia, wondering whether

there was anything on earth, or in the waters under the earth, that

could bring etfulness"

"And--and--you thought of me all that time? There was no one else?"

"There was no one else," he said, as sih sometimes----Do you want me to tell you the whole

truth, dearest?"

"The whole truth," she responded, looking down at him with trustful

eyes, and yet with a little anxious line on her brow For oman

would not have been apprehensive? She had cast hi about the world, free to love again, to choose a wife

"Well, soet