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An i her heart, and she nearly cried

aloud That dread of as before her which had been eating up her

courage slowly in the course of odious years, fla panic which had already driven her out twice

to the top of the cliff-like quarry She ju to herself:

"Why not now? At once! Yes I'll do it now--in the dark!" The very

horror of it seeive her additional resolution

She came down the staircase quietly, and only on the point of opening the

door and because of the discovery that it was unfastened, she rearden all night She hesitated

She did not understand the one beyond the point where thingsdown to him--as he would naturally suppose And even that

didn't matter He could not despise her ht-headed because the thought caovernable fury frole her, it would be as good a way to be done with it as

any

"You had that thought," I exclai with an al precision (her

very lips, her red lips, seeh to be heard and no