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"Then let me pass"

"Aye, when you have heardthat you may say can entility, if you have any pretension to be accounted anything but a rief You witnessed, yourself, the arrest of my father This is no season for such as scene as you are creating"

"Pardon! It is in such a season as this that you need the coive you"

"The man I love?" she echoed, and from flushed that they had been, her cheeks went very pale Her eyes fell for an instant, then--they were raised again, and their blue depths were offered h her teeth, "that your insolence transcends all belief"

"Can you deny it?" I cried "Can you deny that you love o at Toulouse!"

That sot her assurance that she would not listen to me--her promise to herself that she would stoop to no contention with me

"If, in a momentary weakness, in my nescience of you as you truly are, I did s for you, things have coe since then, monsieur, that have revealed you tothat has utterly withered such love as I then confessed Now, monsieur, are you satisfied, and will you let me pass?" She said the last words with a return of her i been drawn so far

"I am satisfied, mademoiselle," I answered brutally, "that you did not speak the truth three nights ago You never loved ed you--shame at the Delilah part you had played and at your betrayal of me Now, mademoiselle, you may pass," said I

And I stood aside, assured that as she was a woman she would not pass me now Nor did she She recoiled a step instead Her lip quivered Then she recovered quickly Herherself in such a duel with h I doubt not it was her first assault-at-arms of this description, she was more than a match for me, as her next words proved

"Monsieur, I thank you for enlightening o You are right, I do not doubt it now, and you lift from me a load of shame"