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shall you sup with beggars They tell --hasting to save a wanton fro upon the speaker in swift anger;

for my lady's hand had freed itself from his clasp, and she had

draay fro his head, "nay, sir, I am only mad,

folk tell me Yet the Wise Ones make me their confidant, they tell

me that she--this proud lady--is here to aid an unworthy brother, who

sent a rogue instead"

"Brother!" exclaiht in his eyes

"Who else, sir?" deain all at

once

"But," staht--"

"Evil of ive ive; you dared to

think--"

"Of the rogue who caue?"

"His name is Chichester," said Barnabas

"Chichester!" she repeated, incredulously "Chichester!"

"A tall, slender, dark man, with a scar on his cheek," added Barnabas

"Do you mean he was here--here to meet me--alone?"

Now, at this she seemed to shrink into herself; and, all at once,

sank down, crouching upon her knees, and hid her face from the moon