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Then she hurried to bed, grateful for the oolly blankets

Relaxation and thought brought consciousness of the heat of her blood,

the beat and throb and swell of her heart, of the tuht have faced the truth of her

strangely renewed and augmented love for Glenn Kilbourne But she was

more concerned with her happiness She had won him back Her presence,

her love had overcome his restraint She thrilled in the sweet

consciousness of her woman's conquest How splendid he was! To hold

back physical tenderness, the siht unduly influence her! He had grown in many ways

She must be careful to reach up to his ideals That about Flo Hutter's

toil-hardened hands! Was that significance somehow connected with

the rift in the lute? For Carley ad incoible that

obtruded its menace into her drea as she could be with Glenn?

And yet there were forced upon her, insistent and perplexing, the

questions--was her love selfish? was she considering hi he could see? Tomorrow and next day and the days to come

held promise of joyous companionship with Glenn, yet likewise they

seeht and ordeal, of

lessons that would nificant for her