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"Was he--was he violent?"

"A little," said Saravely "Thank God I was in time!"

"Oh, you are the bravesther face in her hands, burst into tears

"There, there!" said Saht now! There, there, there!"

He knelt down beside her He slipped one arm round her waist He patted her hands

I have tried to draw Sae I have endeavoured to delineate his character so that it will be as an open book And, if I have succeeded in my task, the reader will by now have becoall of an Army mule His conscience, if he had ever had one, had becoiven this sensitive girl the worst fright she had had since a ot into her bedroom at school He had caused Jno Peters to totter off to the Rupert Street rangenoises And did he care? No! All he cared about was the fact that he had erased for ever fronified picture of himself as he had appeared on the boat, and substituted another which showed hiallant All he cared about was the fact that Billie, so cold ten minutes before, had allowed him to kiss her for the forty-second time If you had asked him, he would have said that he had acted for the best, and that out of evil co like that That was the sort of man Samuel Marloas

His face was very close to Billie's, who had cheered up wonderfully by this tiraded words of endearment into her ear, when there was a sort of explosion in the doorway

"Great Godfrey!" exclai on the scene froe handkerchief a scarlet face, which, as the result of clihtly soluble "Great Heavens above!"