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Brant was breathing hard "Do you e how best to resent such utterance

"You may place your own construction upon what I have said," was the

quiet answer "The special relations existing between Miss Gillis and

myself chance to be no business of yours However, I will consent to

say this--I do enjoy a relationship to her that gives ret having been obliged

by your persistency to speak with such plainness, but this knowledge

should prove sufficient to control the actions of a gentleman"

For ato

perhtly shut He felt utterly

defeated "Your language is sufficiently explicit," he acknowledged,

at last "I ask pardon for lanced back toward thatthe back of the chair

"Before I go, perle question," he said, frankly

"I was a friend of old Ben Gillis, and he was a friend to my father

before me Have you any reason to suspect that he was not Naida

Gillis's father?"