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She awoke and opened her eyes slowly, and looked at hie top, and a Wilson's

thrush was celebrating with his hollow notes the artificial twilight

of its shadow

She s her

eyes It is the unguardedAt such an

instant the mask falls from before the features of the soul I do not

knohat Bennington saw

"Mary, Mary!" he cried uncontrolledly, "I love you! I love you, girl"

He had never before seen any one so vexed She sat up at once

"Oh, why did you have to say that!" she cried angrily "Why did you

have to spoil things! Why couldn't you have let it go along as it was

without bringing that into it!"

She arose and began to walk angrily up and down, kicking aside the

sticks and stones as she encountered the to like you, and now you do this Oh, I aht I had found a ood friend to uardedly,

and behold! the third day he tells ton, his new tenderness fleeing,

frightened, into the inner recesses of his being "I beg your pardon, I

didn't know--Don't! I won't say it again Please!"

The declaration had been irl

frowned at him in two minds as to what to do