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"Knew it?" She confessed, hastily, how her anxiety had led her to his

office, and of the terrible shock she had brought on herself "But now

I know you would not deceive me," she added; "that is why I love you,

because you are always honest and true And do you love me, as you

have told me, more than all the world?"

"More than all the world, Gertrude Why do you look so? You are

treood-by?"

"Only for a day or two, darling: till I can find Morris, then I coht back to you"

"You, too,you you would go to your death if you

atteh Be honest withyour life"

"Only as I have risked it almost every day since I came into the

else? Think what it means to

me--your life Think ill beco to open that hill--if you should fall over a precipice as Morris

Blood has fallen and lies now probably dead Don't go Don't go, this

time You have promised me you would leave the mountains, haven't you?

Don't risk all, dearest, all I have on earth, in an attempt that may

utterly fail and add one more precious life to the lives now

sacrificed You do heed , don't you?"