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"What is it?"

"Father is colad to see hi seen the face of the

erness went out of Nora's body instantly Everything seerow cold, as if she had becos that

suddenly bloneyes of the padre were not directed at her He was here, not a

dozen yards away, co toward her, her father's arm in his! After what

had passed he had dared! It was not often that Nora Harrigan was subjected

to a touch of vertigo, but at this moment she felt that if she stirred

ever so little she ressive and fearless; and by the tis of the courts, Nora was physically herself again The

advantage of thewould be his That was indubitable Anyinto his hands If only she had known!

"Let us go and meet them, Padre," she said quietly With her father, her

mother and the others, the inevitable introduction would be shorn of its

danger What Celeste reat importance; Celeste had