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The slow pulsing flow of the esture, froze Pratt into immobility and thrilled Serviss with joy, for he, too, perceived that every word caerousI have done has been for their good--for the good of the world"

Laht here you quit, ood intentions, but I'ood God, man! she looks ten years older since she left the valley You've been nothing but a curse to her and the girl from the very start, and here is where your trail forks"

The preacher's hollow cheeks were ashen gray and his throat thick with passion as he cried: "You can't do that! You must not separate us I love her--she is mine! The spirit forces have promised her to me They will resent your interference, they will over-ride your puny opposition"

"I take the consequences They go and you stay!"

Clarke turned to Morton in a frenzy, his eyes fla, his lips dry and contorted "I see your hand in this! You stand there silent, but you are theher away--"

"Be quiet!" coesture towards the stairway "Don't you see theerness to flee, was hurriedly descending

As she neared hi wail: "Viola, you are leaving lance and passed on, hurrying as if to escape his outspread hand, swift to outrun the inevitable tragic shadow of his faith

For an instant he reeled back against the wall, then sprang to follow, but the young scientist intervened and thrust him back

"Keep to your own trail," he sternly said, and as he opened the door for the girl, she see-time world of common life