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"I am sorry," she said at last "I am sorry you have spoken to me of it I have felt for some time that you--you cared for me No, Lieutenant Bray, I cannot be your wife"

"I know you love him," he said

"Yes, it is plain I have not tried to hide it"

"Youthat you love hio through life with the feeling, after all, that it ht have been Will you tell me the reason why you cannot marry him? He must love you"

"Lieutenant Bray, he would marry me to-morrow, I think, if I were to consent It isn't that It would not be right for me to consent You profess to love me I have seen it in your eyes--oh, I have learned much of men in the past few months--and I determined, if you ever asked me to marry you, to ask a question in return Do you really knoho I ahter of David Cable, of course"

"No, I ahter?"

"Not even that You come from a proud Southern family I do not knoho my parents were"

"Good Heaven, you-you don't mean you aif?"

"A ithout a name, Lieutenant Bray This is not self-abase ofme If you care less for me now than you did before, you will spread this inforhout the ar what you now do, could you ask me to be your wife?"

"Don't put it just that way," he stammered

"Ah, I see It was a cruel question And yet it proves that you do not love as Graydon Bansemer loves"

"Some day you may find out all about your parents and be happy You , his face white and wet So hiht not have told you this had not the story been printed in every newspaper in the States just before I left You see, I did not know it until just a few ht have read of me I--I am so notorious"

"Jane, dear Jane, you must not feel that way!" he cried, as she started quickly away "It's---" But she turned and motioned for him to cease There were tears in her eyes He stood stock still "She's wonderful!" he said to himself, as she walked away "Even now, I believe I could--Pshaw! It ought not to make any difference! If it wasn't for my family--What's in a name, anyway? A name---" He started to answer his own question, but halted abruptly, squared his shoulders and then with true Southern, ; yes, fa"