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You need not fear but you will find o,--and shall hardly stir from the house till you come to me Send me a line, however, that I may have my hat on if you are minded to do as I ask you

Yours with all my heart, WINIFRED HURTLE

This letter took her h she was very careful so to write as to make it seem that it had flown easily froht, but she copied it rapidly, with one or two premeditated erasures, so that it should look to have been done hurriedly There had been er In calling him to her she had so written as to make him feel that if he would come he need not fear the claws of an offended lioness:--and yet she was angry as a lioness who had lost her cub She had alnored that other lady whose naleht easily be put aside She had said s, but had not said -doer Invited as she had invited him, surely he could not but co to the details of dollars and cents, she had studied how to ht marry her without iht that there was a tone through it of natural feerness She put her letter up in an envelope, stuck a stamp on it and addressed it,--and then threw herself back in her chair to think of her position

He shoulddone which should make the name of Winifred Hurtle known to the world! She had no plan of revenge yet fore,--she told herself that she would not even think of revenge till she was quite sure that revenge would be necessary But she did think of it, and could not keep her thoughts from it for a moment Could it be possible that she, with all her intellectual gifts as well as those of her outward person, should be thrown over by a man ell as she loved hiarded as greatly inferior to herself! He had promised to marry her; and he should marry her, or the world should hear the story of his perjury!