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When they were again in private she said: "We'll go if we have to telephone the police to help us And I' to wire Papa-Joe to come and take us home"

"You are cruel to Tony, child"

"No, I' to myself I never really cared for hirown so egotistical that he is willing to sacrifice ain if I can avoid it"

The ly, for she was forced to adone out of her idol, and that he now stood in a new and harsh light All the hard lines of his face appeared to her, and his pallor, his deep-set eyes were those of a sick and restless soul She no longer rejoiced at the thought of giving her daughter into his hands

Clarke was truly in a pitiable state of incertitude and despair His oration, his interdicted challenge, his book, his religion were all sed in by the one great passion which now flooded and filled his brain--his love for Viola "She belongs tolimbs, a dry, hard knot in his throat, his eyes hot with tears that would not fall "She must surrender herself to er She o as e--he will vilify us both, but ill defy hiuides' will confound hio on--" The , handed him Viola's answer and went hastily out He read it and reread it till its finality burned into his brain, then dropped into a deep chair and there lay for a long ti stupor

Was it all over, then? Was her final decision in that curt scrawl? She had returned his own note as if with intent to eo she had assented to all his plans, leaning upon his advice What had produced this antagonism? What evil influence was at work?

He rose on a sudden, fierce return of self-mastery, and went to Mrs Lambert's door and knocked, and when she opened to him demanded of her a full explanation "What is theme?"