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"Why, Leslie! What is the asped Julia Cloud

"Tell her!" ordered Leslie, the revolver still pointed straight at Myrtle

"What shall I tell?" gasped the other girl, turning a white, miserable face toward Miss Cloud as if to appeal to her leniency But there was a severity in Julia Cloud's face now after her long hours of anxiety that boded no good for the cause of all her alar voice of Leslie

"Why, ent out to take a ride," began Myrtle, looking up with her old braggadocio There had seldoet out of a situation by use of her wily tongue

"Tell it all," said Leslie, looking across the barrel of her weapon "Tell anted to go on that ride"

"Why, yes, I asked Leslie to take me I--ell, that is--I wanted to ht!" ordered Leslie

"Why, of course I didn't tell Leslie I expected to eot out And e met him--and my cousin--it was my cousin I was to led up with her glib tongue under the clear gaze of Julia Cloud's truth-coe on her sash, and turned red and white by turns, and see, very silly child But Leslie had suffered, and just now Leslie had no irl had been a kind of idol to whom she had sacrificed much, and now that her idol had fallen she wanted to make the idol pay Or no, was that it? Leslie afterwards searched her heart, and felt that she could truly say that her strongest et the burden of the knowledge of it off her own shrinking soul

"Tell the rest!" caled on

"Well, I'et et ht after he found out he couldn't help hiet in the car!" ordered the fierce voice again; and Myrtle, recalled from another atteh the whole shameful story until it was complete