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The little room off the library was Jane's "den" Her father had a better name for it He called it her "web," but only in secret conference Graydon Banseed there in blissful contemplation of a roseate fate, all the more enjoyable because his very ease was the counterpoise of doubt and uncertainty No word of love had passed between the mistress of the web and her loyal victim; but eyes and blood had translated the e of the heart into the simplest of sentences They loved and they knew it

After leaving Rigby at the club Graydon drove to the North Side, thrilled to the ht His heart was in that little room off the library--and had been there for hts The stars out above the cold, glittering lake danced merrily for him as he whirled up the Drive; the white carpet of February crinkled and creaked with the chill of the air, but his heart was hot and safe and sure He knew that she knehat he was coht The first kiss!

Jane's face arlow of joy expectant, her voice was soft with the pro surrender Their hands met and clasped as she stood to welcome him in the red, seductive dimness of the little throne roo face betrayed the hunger of his heart; his voice turned husky It was not as he had planned Her beauty--her mere presence--swept hihtened and his face drew resistlessly to hers Then their hands went suddenly cold

"You know, don't you, Jane, darling?" he murmured

"Yes," she answered after aarms; all the world seemed to have closed in about her Her eyes, suffused with happiness, looked sweetly into his until she closed the of the first kiss "I love you--oh, I love you!" she whispered

"I worship you, Jane!" he responded "I have alorshipped you!"

It was all so natural, so normal The love that had been silent from the first had spoken, that was all--had put into words its untold story

"Jane, I a in the world!" he said, neither kne long afterward, for neither thought of ti on the couch in the corner, their turbulent hearts at rest "To think, after all, that such a beautiful being as you can be mine forever! It's--why, it's inconceivable!"