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"Viola, I have so important to say to you I ao away In the face of the great hich is yours to do I do not understand how you can think of dropping it in o away on an errand which is essentially selfish--as well as er I don't understand this renewal of restlessness on your part"

The girl's face was clouded, for she had just learned of Serviss's departure and was deeply hurt She drew the pin froesture was so of the resolution of the warrior who divests hi plumed helet away froer"

"Why not? Why are you so unhappy?" he asked, with an accent of stern reproof "It is a beautiful land--you are a your own people, you have your ht to be happy"

"That's just it," she interrupted, quite fiercely "It is because I a It see the best years of et away I et away!"

"Does your ith ht hers He approached her "Do I weary you? Am I an irritation?"

Her face softened "No, you have helped me very much I couldn't have endured this life without you and o on with them"

"Don't you feel that you must? Don't you feel their enorin to doubt myself--everybody What have they done for you, for anybody, that I should sacrifice nay whole life to the; they made Dr Randall happy in his last years; they are a daily solace to your ency" He bent towards her "Viola, ned for you and me a closer union than even this You say I have comforted you, that I have ht to tell you that I love you, and that I want you to be irl recoiled fro a low cry of surprise, of question

He went on: "Yes, I have grown to care for you beyond any other hu You areI should have gone mad but for you" He bent upon her a look of passion and co tomisinterpreted, and he added, quickly: "I know this comes to you abruptly, and yet you must have felt my love, you must have read my heart"