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Joan went from man to e, sweetly and sadly friendly to each; and it was

not till she encountered the little Frenchman that the secret was

revealed Frenchy was of a different race Deep in the fiber of his

being inculcated a sentied in the

darkness of a wicked life, and now that so out

of the depths--and it was respect for a woht Yesterday these ruffians despised her; to-day they

respected her So they had believed what she had so desperately

flung at Jiood, they pitied her, they

respected her, they responded to her effort to turn a boy back from

a bad career They were bandits, desperados, murderers, lost, but

each reht have

felt or done had he possessed her, as Kells possessed her, did not

alter the case as it stood A strange inconsistency of character

ht not have hated in