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Further a new distrust and a desire to escape further connection with her, swept him into a profounder desire to serve and shield her His heart filled with pity and love, and into his eyes a stern light--the light of battle--came "She shall not be tortured so, if I can defend her or lead the way to escape Lambert must leave the city at once and take them both with him"

He rose and walked about the room in order to recover command of his face and voice "Truly the ht well He has promised himself that his spirit, freed from the body, will be able to possess and control his victim The ht of her, do delusion, filled him with dismay and horror "She, too, will be sainstconsideration of all

Realizing at length that every additional minute of absence uests with iht even fro power

Kate saw at once that so shadowed him, "What is it, Morton?"

"One of my acquaintances has met with trouble--financial trouble--and wants my help I'll tell you about it later," he curtly replied, attacking the salad again She was silenced though not satisfied, and dinner was resueneral depression

Viola was especially troubled by the change in Morton's face, and with a desire to be of soo to the theatre to-night Please don't do so on our account"

Her glance and her tone, both more intimately sympathetic than she had hitherto permitted the off his gloom he cheerily responded: "We will not let any outside ained by staying at hoet all about this interruption"

As he spoke she sat with hands before her, gazing straight at him with eyes that slowly lost their outward look Her eyelids fell, she began to whiten and to droop, and her hands twitched and tre fear--a belief that she had been able, after all, to penetrate his mind and read its dreadful secret, Morton sat irresolute, in the grasp of a blind despair, a palsy of the will Clarke's dead hand see le second, for back to the young scientist's heart, like a swelling wave, ca will Rising swiftly but caletting your pro to disobey my commands"