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"God, no!"

"I'd advise you to go home and talk it over with your father"

"To-h After the newspapers are out I can't bear to think of the disgrace, Harbert has been interviewed, they say He's told everything"

"Talk to your father to-night,man dropped his head on his arorously at his pipe, his eyes shifting and uncomfortable Twice he attempted to speak, and could not In both instances he arose and poked the fire At last the young rew less violent Drooaze fro "Dawn," and spoke: "You wouldn't think it to look at me now--or any other tio She never knew it I didn't expect her to love me How could I? Don't cry, Graydon You're not like I was The girl you love loves you Cheer up If I were you I'd go ahead and h, I'll swear"

"She says she can't marry me Good Heaven, Elias you don't knohat a bloas to her It almost killed her And my own father--oh, it was terrible!"

Elias Droom did not tell him--nor had he ever told anyone but himself--that the woman he loved was the boy's mother He loved her before and after she married James Bansemer He never had faltered in his love and reverence for her

Graydon waited in his roo papers As Droorinned cheerfully

"Big headlines, eh? But these are not a circumstance to what they will be These articles deal only with the greatthe birth of one of the 'o' Wait--wait until the Banse, eh!"

"Don't, Elias, for Heaven's sake, don't!" cried the young man "Have you no soft spot in your heart? God, I believe you enjoy all this Look! Look what it says about her! The whole shaht! There was a reporter there when it happened"

Together they read the papers Their coroaned under the revelations that were going to the public; the old clerk chuckled and philosophised

Every one of these papers prophesied other and more sensational developments before the day was over It promised to be war to the knife between David Cable, president of the Pacific, Lakes & Atlantic, and the man Banse emphatically that the adoption of Jane had been hter was the only one to who revelations were a surprise There also waswoement with Ja characters in the drama