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I looked at Ruth to see what she wished

"If you won't think rateful," said she, "I should rather be alone with ht He is very weak, and--"

"Yes, I understand," I said hastily And I did Mr Bellingha emotions and would probably be soe of fortune and the news of his brother's tragic death

"In that case," said Thorndyke, "I will bespeak your services Will you go on and wait for hauidance of Dr Norbury (who carried an electric lamp) to return by the e had come; two of us, at least, in a vastly different fraates, and as Thorndyke wished ht," she held his hand and looked up in his face with swi eyes

"I haven't thanked you, Doctor Thorndyke," she said, "and I don't feel that I ever can What you have done for me and my father is beyond all thanks You have saved his life and you have rescued nominy Good-bye! and God bless you!"

The hanso eastward--at s within the wide boundaries of the town I looked at hts of the street shone into the cab, and was astonished at the transforiven place to a rosy pink; the hardness, the tension, the haggard self-repression that had aged her face, were all gone, and the girlish sweetness that had so bewitched me in the early days of our love had stolen back Even the di lashes lifted and her eyes met mine in a smile of infinite tenderness Little was said on that brief journey It was happiness enough to sit, hand clasped in hand, and know that our time of trial was past; that no cross of Fate could ever part us now

The astonished cab to instructions, at the entrance to Nevill's Court, and watched us with open e The court had settled down for the night, and no one marked our return; no curious eye looked down on us froate

"You will come and see us to-morrow, dear, won't you?" she asked

"Do you think it possible that I could stay away, then?"