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The thought in all its phases tore his mind and kept him awake for hours, for the crux of the wholeto ht, and he knew that it was not only for her sake, but for his also that he did not want this--that it was agony even to contemplate

He told himself, of course, that his interest was utterly unselfish That she was nothing to hiht be hard to see her belong to so friend, still it would not be like seeing her tied to a rotten unprincipled fellow like Wainwright The queer part of it was that the word "rotten" in connection with his eneht

Soht a memory caue wistful reaching of his heart after the Christ to whom he was supposed to have surrendered his life He wondered if a Christ such as the stranger had claimed He had, would take an interest in the affairs of Ruth Macdonald Surely, such a flower of a girl would be protected if there was protection for anyone! And soed a queer little prayer for her, the first he had tried to put up It helped hi he fell asleep

A few days later in glancing through his newly acquired Testareatly troubled hiht it at rando one another, and forgiving one another, if any ave you, so also do ye"

Somehow the principle of that verse did not fit with his proud spirit He thought instantly of Wainwright's distasteful face and for triumphal sneer His en, and had been deepenedabout Wainwright toabout him to make one want to punish hi indignation that there had been so hts with his quarrel with Wainwright Why, anybody that knew hi God ht apply to little quarrels but not to his feeling about the way Wainwright had treated him ever since they were children That was not to be borne, of course Those words he had called Cameron's father! How they made his blood boil even now! No, he would not forbear nor forgive Wainwright God would not want hiainst hiestion and turned to the beginning of his testaer had set him in search