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Jane was ill and did not leave her roo the visit to the penitentiary She was haunted by the face of Jaination to recall hiuished man she once had known Graydon was deeply distressed over the pain and huh Droom's unfortunate efforts The fact that she could not or would not see him for two days hurt him more than he could express, even to himself The day before he left for New York, however, she saw him in their parlour She was pale and very quiet

Neitherto say

"You will be in New York next week?" he asked as he arose to leave His spirit was sore She again had told him that he must not hope With an hysterical attempt to lead him on to other topics, she repeated her conversations with Teresa Valesquez, urging him with a hopeless atteirl and hed lifelessly at the jest

"We will leave Chicago on Monday Father will have his business affairs arranged by that tin the presidency It would see it away frohtback to New York, where I was born, Graydon--to work!"

He went aith the feeling in his heart that he was not to see her again A single atoered in his soul, however, and he tried to build upon it for the future Rigby's wedding invitation had co--almost as a mockery He tore it to pieces with a scowl of recollection

Droo back, huest that they should travel East on the saave a bound of pure joy--the first he had knohen the young ether they travelled eastward and horey rew into a year--and longer It was a long but a profitable year for Graydon Bansemer; he had been enriched not only in wealth but in the hope of ultied him Far from it, she was more obdurate than ever with an ocean between therown to a purpose His face was thinner and his eyes were of a deeper, irl across the sea, and of pity and yearning for the man back there in the West