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"No"

"I thought not How long has he known Viola?"

"It's nearly two years since he came to Colorow; but he has only seen her a few tiin to understand You'd better not let hi to conduct experiirl If you had any sense, Clarke, you'd see that for yourself"

Clarke's expression changed His cheeks grew livid with his passion, and his eyes burned with the saht that had filled the over Viola's hand Pratt's brutal frankness had cleared his own thought and re-aroused his sense of proprietorship in the girl Until that dinner caht of Serviss merely as the scientist to be used to further his own plans Now he knew hi of the heart he suspected him to be a successful rival

He rose from the table and left the rooht do in his rage

"Tony, Tony!" she called

He turned and faced her, his face set in horrible lines, his fists clinched "I've been a fool, a fool!" he declared, through set teeth "Why didn't you warn me? I should have made her safely my own before I came East She loves him, but he shall not have her--by God he shall not! Where is she? Tell her I must see her!"

She pleaded for delay, and at last calmed him so that he left her and went to his room She then hastened to Viola and locked the door behind her

"Viola, dear, get ready! We must leave this house at once," she said, breathlessly

"What has happened?" asked Viola

Mrs Lareeable They are wrangling again about that challenge and about you"

"About le about ht to say what part I arandfather holdsinto the street--"

A knock at the door startled them both, but it proved to be the maid, who said, "Here is a note fro an answer,' , but Viola wrote across it in firirl "Take that to him," she said, careless of the fact that her refusal was open to the eyes of the er