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sign that she had heard She recognized the voice and also the epithet

Passing to the other side of the roo the colance at the door Severalthere One of them was the sheep dipper, Haze Ruff His bold

eyes were on her now, and his coarse face wore a slight,about her that was a secret to others

Carley dropped her eyes But she could not shake off the feeling that

wherever she aze followed her The unpleasantness

of this incident would have been nothing to Carley had she at once

forgotten it Most unaccountably, however, she could not make herself

unaware of this ruffian's attention It did no good for her to argue

that she was merely the cynosure of all eyes This Ruff's tone and look

possessed so heretofore unknown to Carley Once she was teht, so she kept her

counsel She danced again, and helped Flo entertain her guests, and

passed that door often; and once stood before it, deliberately, with all

the strange and contrary impulse so inscrutable in a woman, and never

for a moment wholly lost the sense of the ular thing about this boldness was

its difference from any, which had ever before affronted her The fool's

sht she saw his attention, and, understanding

it perfectly, had secret delight in it Many and various had been the

otisms which had come under her observation But quite

beyond Carley was this brawny sheep dipper, Haze Ruff Once the party

broke up and the guests had departed, she instantly forgot both man and

incident