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"You say--you tell ," Saunders said "Now let's go hoet down on your knees to her and beg her to forgive you I know of no other woman like her in this world--none, none, anywhere She has my admiration, an to kindle--"Ann said she saw that dirty scamp actually holdin' her in his arms an' kissin' 'er She said that Dolly oin' to round, his eyes went airass near by

"Ah, ha, I see that floors you!" Drake flared out "You ade of our confidence, an'--"

"You've got to face that part of it as I would do if she were my child," Saunders answered "Listen to me, Drake Mostyn is not a whit better or worse than many other men of his class He has been fast and reckless, but when heinfluence of his life I am in his confidence He told me the whole story He determined that he would win her love and make her his wife When he left here it ith the fir wholly true to her Now, I can only say that on his return home he found hith of character to get out of than he had You cannot afford to attack hihter, and you have no right to do it, no ot to consider her feelings If she cares for--for him, and--and--is depressed by the newspaper reports, that is all the more reason for your sympathy and support Surely you can realize what she has escaped As that man's wife her life would have been hell on earth He is wholly unworthy of her If she were my--sister, I'd rather see her dead thanhead He stepped slowly to his horse and grasped the rein Saunders went a few feet to the right, searched on the ground a , he extended it to its owner

Drake took it silently, and cluulped, sed, then said, huskily: "You are my friend, Saunders I've had so favor to-night I'll never git forgiveness for tryin' to shoot you--never--never in this world"