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"But they worked in a company once"

"Never for seven miles Four miles was their radius Five would see theh at h at everything! Have five years of Plattville

taught you to do that?"

"I laugh only at taking the poor Cross-Roaders too seriously I don't

laugh at your running into fire to help a fellow-mortal"

"I knew there wasn't any risk I knew he had to stop to load before he

shot again"

"He did shoot again If I had known you before to-night--I--" His tone

changed and he spoke gravely "I am at your feet in worship of your

philanthropy It's so er than for

a friend"

"That is rather a man's point of view, isn't it?"

"You risked yours for a man you had never seen before"

"Oh, no! I saw you at the lecture; I heard you introduce the Honorable Mr

Halloway"

"Then I don't understand your wishing to save ray eyes upon him with troubled

sunniness, and, under the kindness of her regard, he set a watch upon his

lips, though he knew it

respectably so far, he thought, but he had the senti in his heart She continued to