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Hampton took one hasty step forward "What do you mean?" he exclaimed,

fiercely, his eyes two coals of fire

Brant felt that the other's display of irritation gave hier, I a caused me to

harbor the suspicion, and I naturally supposed you would know about it

Indeed, I wondered if soht not account for your

very deep interest in keeping her so entirely to yourself"

Haether unusual to the

man, yet when he spoke his voice was like steel "Your suspicions are

highly interesting, and your cowardly insinuations base However, if,

as I suppose, your purpose is to provoke a quarrel, you will find me

quite ready to accommodate you"

An instant they stood thus, eye to eye Suddenly Brant's irl whose name would be smirched by any blow struck between

the upon his lips

"Youlike a statue, his back to

the door, "but I a is ht a personal quarrel Nor is there any cause here, asthe question was to forewarn you, and her