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The next few seconds see; a black abyss of

tione fro of fear And that woh her set teeth: "You say Iof him like this to-morrow They will say it, and

they'll print it You shall hear it and you shall read it--and then you

shall knohose daughter you are"

Her face lighted up with an atrocious satisfaction "He's nothing but a

thief," she cried, "this father of yours As to you I have never been

deceived in you for aar, silly nonentity, and you shall go back

to where you belong, whatever low place you have sprung fro

your bread--that is if anybody's charity will have anything to do with

you, which I doubt--"

She would have gone on regardless of the enorirl who sat up suddenly with the wild staring expression of being

choked by invisible fingers on her throat, and yet horribly pale The

effect on her constitution was so profound, Mrs Fyne told me, that she

who as a child had a rather pretty delicate colouring, showed a white