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"You speak as if you possessed full authority to express her ravely, his face impassive "My words would quite

naturally bear so rined, disar

bound before hiscaptor "Then I fear my mission here is

useless"

"Entirely so, if you co erect in his chair, and speaking with more rapid utterance

"To lectureup all influence

over this girl,--such a ree of calmness in this room already to one such address,

and surrendered to its reasoning But permit me to say quite plainly,

Lieutenant Brant, that you are not the person from whom I will quietly

listen to another"

"I had very little expectation that you would"

"You should have had still less, and remained away entirely However,

now that you are here, and the subject broached, it beco, and to say it clearly It seems to me you would exhibit

far better taste and discri your attentions upon Miss Gillis"

Brant leaped to his feet, but the other never deigned to alter his

position