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"I know it," Saunders broke in "Now, listen to o no further if I can help it He wants to catch the southbound train I a forward, desperately clutching his arht both her hands in his and pressed them "You must let me--I have never been able to help you in any way, and I have alanted to I'd give ht I feel this thing, little friend I --I si to his hands desperately She raised theainst her throbbing breast "Oh, Mr Saunders, it is so--so awful to be suspected of being bad when I--when I--"

"When you are the purest, sweetest child that ever breathed," he cried, fiercely "They sha'n't start gossip about you" He dropped her hands and turned his horse round quickly "I'll overtake hilanced at his watch "I have no tiht--itto his foot which he was trying to put into the stirrup

"He will kill you, too," she sobbed, "and I'll have that on my head also Oh, Mr Saunders--"

Gently he drew his foot from her clutch There was a look in his eyes which she never forgot to the end of her life "Excuse me, but I must hurry," he said "He is on a fast horse, and the train ood-by"

Away he dashed at full speed, bent to the mane of his mount like a chased Indian on the plains Once he looked back, seeing the patient little figure standing like athe dust pounded into the air by Drake's horse, and feeling the grit between his teeth No one was in sight The lights of the far Suddenly, so It was Drake, who now stooped down to pick up so horse, and, quickly springing into his saddle, was off again