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"No fear of that," she cried, in defiant brightness "I'm not so easily fooled"

She re-entered the library with the flush of an excited conviction in her face "Morton, I feel as if I had taken part in the dissection of a huesture of pain and despair "Don't! I can only hope that girl is utterly bad Otherwise she is the sport of devils Help ," she said, firmly "It is just such men as you and Dr Weissmann who should snatch the pearl of truth froood phrase, Kate--if only I was sure of the pearl"

There really was no way out for him His mind utterly discredited the phenomena Viola claimed to produce, and that left but one other interpretation She was a trickster and auto-hypnotist--uncanny as the fabled women ere fair on one side but utterly foul and corrupt on the other In his , physical self drew near, and when he looked into her sweet, clear eyes his brain reeled with doubt of his doubt If there were any honest eyes in the world, she was innocent, and a tortured victim, as Kate had so quickly decided; and his plain duty was to beat back the forces seeking to devour her

"The dom subject to inexplicable revolts and sudden confusions," he thought "Delusions are easy to fouishable fro is concerned The body of this girl is young, but her brainline of decadent ancestry" The thought was horrible, but it was less revolting than the alternative--in no other way could her life be explained and excused In any case it was highly courageous in her to put e away as decisively as if it were a cri to Britt, had thus far sued in vain There was a heroic strain in the girl sorene eating its way to the very centre of her soul? This was the question which only a renewed acquaintance, a careful study could resolve