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"Stop, Marie!" Mostyn de me in that sort of connection?"

"Humph! What do I mean? Well, I mean that men say--oh, I've heard them talk! I don't have to tell you who said it, but I have heard them say if you hadn't broken old Mr Henderson all to pieces several years ago you'd never have been where you are to-day"

"You don't understand that, Marie," Mostyn answered, impatiently "Henderson took it to court, and the decision was--"

"Oh, I know!" She tossed her head "Your lawyers pulled you through for a rake-off, and the Henderson girls went to work They live in a shabby little four-room house not far from here I often see them at the wash-tub in the back yard The old irls I can't bla with a person you learn how to hate The thing stays in the ht and day till it festers like a boil and you want to even up soan, desperately deliberate "Why can't we coreement? You want to help your brother out of his trouble, I a aet up ready funds in such quantities as that, but suppose I give it to you?"

"You--you give it toapart, her white teeth showing "Why, you said, not a o, that you were too hard pushed for h your conduct you are actually driving me to the wall and I am desperate I aet up that money I'll send you a draft for it to-day provided--provided, Marie, that you soleree not to disturb me at all in the future"

"Do you really erly "Because-- because if you don't you ought not to mention it I'd cut off my hands and feet to save that dear boy"

"I mean it," he answered, firmly "But this time you must keep your promise, and, no matter what I do in the future, you ree I love you--I really do, but froo raph Hal that--"