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"Not after I aroan?"

"Horribly! My heart was filled with remorse--"

"I'm sorry It doesn't really hurt ain And yet I hate iveht that scaresso helpless It see like--like a hotel piano--for any one to strum on--I mean that any one in the other world--It is so crowded over there, you know!" Her brows drew together in ust

"I don't know, but itthere If I had ain," he declared, most fervently

"I wouldn't mind so much," she went on, "if I were not marked out for suspicion--if people would only talk to s part of the tiirl--but they never do Everybody wants to talk to e to s you abhor To think that ho have ainst your slavery could not allow you one free evening! I will not say another word on these uncanny subjects"

"But I want to talk of them to you! I wanted to tell you all about myself that day we rode up to the ht have reat deal of difference in your life--and ht, as we sat in the darkness If I could, I would keep you as girlish, as gay, as you were that day This business is all a desecration to hed back at me in the rain I ere both there this minute"

She sreistful "I've been getting homesick for the mountains lately--and yet I like it here I love this beautiful roohtful tiuides weren't so anxious to have row more and more conscience-smitten!" he exclaimed "To think we should be the ones to tie and torture you, and at our first dinner-party!"

"Please don't blarandfather insisted on talking with you, and I--I wished it very lad you !--I want you to believe in me I mean that I don't deceive--"