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It would not be difficult to expand these doubts, to amplify these

reasons, and even to adduce others which occurred to the unhappy young

h has been said Surely the

reader, no ument,

must be able now at least to syton de

Laney had soht, some excuse for the tardiness of his

steps as they carried hiirl he loved

For he did love her, perhaps the more tenderly that doubts must,

perforce, arise All these considerations affected not at all his

thought of her But now, for the first ti the relative claims of duty and happiness His happiness

depended upon his love That his duty to his race, his parents, his

caste had some reality in fact, and a very solid reality in his own

esties have

been written in vain

The conflict in his mind had carried him to the Rock Here, as he

expected, he found Mary already arrived He ascended to the little

plateau and dropped wearily to the one very white

in the last quarter of an hour

"You see nohy I asked you to come to-day," she said without

preli more to