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"Yes, she's proud There is good blood in her I don't wonder now that I used to think she was such a marvel She's--she's not just the same sort of stock that we are, take it as you will"

"She never must know the truth, David"

"She's bound to find it out, dear We'd better tell her It will be easier for her Banses must be made harmless forever He shan't bother her She'd better hear the story from us and not from him"

"But Graydon? She'll lose him, David"

"I'm not so sure of it She's worthy of any man's love and we must know that Graydon loves her I'll trust to that But, first of all, we must put it beyond the power of James Banseo after him--Graydon or no Graydon--he'll know that there is such a place as hell"

"Be rational, David Let us take our tiht of the story that will go out concerning me--how I deceived you about Jane for years and years What will people think of me? What will they say?" she almost wailed

"Frances," said he, his voice tense and earnest, "that is between you and me I intend to say to the world, if occasion demands, that I have known from the first that Jane was not our child That will be---"

"Oh, David, you CAN'T say that," she cried joyously

"I shall say it, dear old partner I shall say that you took her from the asylum with my consent There is only James Bansemer to call me a liar, and he will not dare!"

"That old man Droom, David--his clerk The man who saved me--he knows"

"He is in the boat with his h I'll spare him much for that And I have more to fear froht before last down there at the sea wall He knows--I am morally certain--that you were not attacked by a robber"

"But, David, I WAS robbed My rings and my pendant were taken by someone If Droom was the first man at my side--after you--then he e hiroaned Cable "He saved your life and heI have to know just how much he saw of the affair I can't account for his presence there It seems like fate"

"It is impossible for him to accuse you, David"