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Alone in her rooht eyes on the placid fields lying between the house and theto the narrow mullions as if for support She seeht; her shapely chin had a piteous quiver

"Oh, that was it!" she ed to her all the tiot tired of us here and went back to her I'll never see hiain--never, never, never!"

The bed, with its snowy coverlet and great downy pillows, invited her She was about to throw herself upon it, but her pride, pierced to the quick, rebelled "I sha'n't cry!" she said "He isfor her money I sha'n't weep over it He lied towith his business and when that was settled he would write He was just trifling, passing tio, and I--I--silly little gump--actually kissed him I trusted him as I trust--as I trusted God I even confided father's secret to him I loved hi radual slope of a rise she saw her father and George cutting and raking hay How odd it see of mere horses and cattle when to her life itself seeerm There was a step on the stairs The door was thrown open, and her sister rushed in

"Oh, Dolly!" Ann cried, her begri at Dolly's aroing to--"

"Oh, go away, go away, please go away!" the older pleaded "Don't talk to me now--not now!"

"But I want to know--Ivoice rising higher and higher "I can't stand it, Dolly Ever since you told ht about Atlanta and your beautiful hoht--I thought it was actually settled, but if--if the paper tells the truth--Why don't you talk? What has got into you all at once? Surely--surely he wouldn't--surely you wouldn't have gone out to ht as you did and let hiht and--"