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"Indeed!" and Mrs Herndon's voice was not altogether pleasant "I

understood she was entirely alone and friendless Are you that ht her out of the canyon?"

Ha the act

"Oh! then I knoho you are," she continued, unhesitatingly "You are

a gah I won't touch a penny of your money

I told Mr Wynkoop that I shouldn't, but that I would endeavor to doher here himself,

and keep you away"

The htly, not in the least disconcerted by her plain

speech The cutting words merely served to put him on his mettle

"Probably we departed from the hotel somewhat earlier than the minister

anticipated," he explained, quietly, his old ease of reatly regret your evident

prejudice, madam, and can only say that I have more confidence in you

than you appear to have in me I shall certainly discover soirl's future, but in the

meanwhile will relieve you of lare of the sunlight, feeling utterly

careless as to the wo that the girl had not once lifted her downcast eyes to his face

Yet he had scarcely taken three steps toward the road before she was