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"Well, what have you to say?" she was de "Why have you asked me to come out here? You haveto tell Graydon that Jane is not our child? I must know"

"Not our child?" came from the palsied lips of David Cable, so low and lifeless that the sound was lost in the swish of the water below The interhthouse far out in the lake blinked back at hilare

"Do you hear me? I have lied to my husband for the last time!" There was almost a tone of victory in the voice, now "Do you hear me? You don't dare! David will not believe you--he will believe my--"

A terrible oath choked back the hopeful words in the woman's throat Murder had come back into the man's heart

"You lie!"

"David!"

"Yes, it's David! Liar! Whose child is she? Tell me?"

"David! David! For God's sake, hear , I swear it!"

"She's not h that folloas that of a raging maniac "You've fooled me, you fiend! You devil!"

At that word and with one look at her husband's terribly distorted features, Frances Cable shrank back with a single terrified cry, turned fro of the wild beast, Cable rushed after her, cursing her with every breath In a few yards he had alrasp her neck But, at that instant, the frightened woave way; her knees received the fall of the limp body For a second she seemed huddled in a posture of prayer, then toppled over, slipped easily forward through a fissure in the wall and plunged headfore waters below

In the lives even of the best of men there are moments when the human instincts are annihilated and supplanted by those of the beast Likewise, have there been instances in which the bravest have been tried in the furnace and found wanting, while conversely, the supposedly cowards have proved to be heroes Therefore, since no two situations can occur at a different time and yet have precisely si, lest we be judged, and to approach the following incident in this lass

Froe up to this le of life than David Cable; yet, now, in this hour--his hour of travail and temptation, he piteously succumbed Cowardice, the rasp