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"Because he has been good and true to me," she explained, frankly,

"better than anybody else in all the world I don't care what you say,

you and those others who do not know him, but I believe in him; I think

he is a man They won't let me see him, the Herndons, nor permit him

to come to the house He has not been in Glencaid for two years, until

yesterday The Indian rising has driven all the e, and he cali on I--I saw him over at

the hotel just for a moment--Mrs Guffy handed me a note--and I--I had

only just left hiain, to talk with hiet away

from you, and I didn't knohat to do There, I've told it all; do

you really think I am so very bad, because--because I like Bob Hampton?"

He stood a moment completely nonplussed, yet coht to question your motives," he said, at last,

"and I believe your purposes to be above reproach I wish I ive

the same credit to this man Hampton But, Miss Naida, the world does

not often consent to judge us by our own esti;

it prefers to place its own interpretation on acts, and thus often