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She patted him on the shoulder "Go to bed, laddie, it's only a mood She will be all sunshine to-morrow It's only a reaction from a wearisome day--be patient and don't worry"

"She tortured me deliberately," he went on, wildly "She let that man take her hand She smiled at him in a way that set my brain on fire I tried to be calm I didn't intend to speak harshly, but I wanted to kill hiht to her May God eternally damn his soul if he tries to steal her from ?"

"I mean it! Do you think I will submit to his treachery? I told him she was mine, and yet he took her hand--he leaned to her--he looked into her face" His eyes blazed with such wild light that the gentle woination run aith you Go to bed this instant," she commanded, in a voice that tre, miserably maudlin, almost incoherent, and when she closed and locked the door upon him she dropped into a chair, and for the first tiave way to tears of bewilderment and despair