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"I was in no condition to know, Miss Landis"

The crude brutality of the expression usted her had she been less intelligent Nor, as it was, did she fully understand why he chose to use it--unless that he meant it in self-punishment

"It's rather shainning"

"A--beginning! Do you o on?"

He did not reply; his head was partly turned fro had returned to lie at Siward's feet, its brown eyes tirelessly watching thehis eyes, dropped one hand on the dog's head, caressing the silky ears

Some sentimentalist had once said that no man who cared for animals could be wholly bad Inexperience inclined her to believe it Then too, she had that inclination for overlooking offences coainst precept, which appears to be one of those edifying human traits peculiar to neither sex and coe of such ue as her mind was healthy and body wholesome Men who dined incautiously were not re inco; and she said, innocently: "What men like you can find attractive in a common woman I do not understand; there are plenty of pretty women of your own sort The actress cult is beyond enerally condoned But it is not for such things that we drop men, Mr Siward You know that, of course"

"For what do you drop men?"

"For falsehood, deception, any dishonesty"

"And you don't drop a man when you read in the papers that one of the two best clubs in town has expelled hilance; and, naively: "But you are still a : "It was coraceful and inco in her heart toward hi; "it was not even bad--it orse than being simply bad; it was stupid!"

He nodded, one hand slowly caressing the dog's head where it lay across his knees

She watched hi a little: "So now I know the worst about you; do I not?" she concluded

He did not answer; she waited, the s her red mouth Had she been too severe? She wondered "You