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"Sh! Don't mention the name aloud!"

"But he did unearth it, beyond all possible chance ofat that table Don't look up just yet He is staring at you He doesn't know you, but he does know you are a pretty worey hair, Graydon See? That man is her father"

Graydon half started up in his chair, his lips apart, his eyes riveted on the nated Every drop of blood seemed to have frozen in his veins

"Good God, Elias!" he whispered "Why, that is--" The naned the banknote He is Jane's father There's blue blood in hi Henry's day--but he is a villain for all that Now, Miss Cable, I've done my duty I've told you the absolute truth You could not have expected reater climax The name of Vanderbilt or Astor is no better known than that man's name, and no ancestry is better than that of your ive to you one of the articles of proof that connects you with their history" He handed to her a se "It is the letter written to Ja to an appointrave moment I found the letter that sarandfather's signature That is all I heard part of that interview, and I stakeat hi the full import of his words--the words she had craved for sohere to-night He gives a theatre party To- in Paris," muttered Graydon mechanically Jane spoke for the first time, as in a daze

"I--I have seen him many times in Paris My father? Oh, oh, it can't be true"

"Jane, lether pallor

"No Let ain and again," she said, shrinking back as if the whole world were staring at her By theco moment

"He's worth millions," said Droom "It will be worth while for YOU to--"

"No!" she exclaimed passionately "Do you think I will present myself to him after he has cast me off! No! a thousand times, no!"