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He began to tre silence She had

turned quite away from him When he spoke, his voice was as low as hers,

and he spoke as slowly as she had

"You mean--then--it was--you?"

"Yes"

"You!"

"Yes"

"And you have been here all the time?"

"All--all except the week you were--hurt, and that--that one evening"

The bright veil which wrapped the dusk

He tried to loosen his neck-band; it see hi to realize what it----"

"It ," she answered

"There was an editorial, yesterday," he said, "an editorial that I thought

was about Rodney McCune Did you write it?"

"Yes"

"It was about--me--wasn't it?"

"Yes"

"It said--it said--that I had won the love of every person in Carlow

County"