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Dolly and her coed off down the road

"Well, I'ht," Mostyn said, lamely; but Dolly, still listless, made no reply Silently she walked by his side, her pretty head down An impulse of the heart i forht into his eyes

"I ondering--" she began, but checked herself

"What were you wondering, Dolly?" The fire of his whole being was roused; it throbbed in his lips, thickened his tongue, and blazed in his eyes It filled his voice like a strea"--her sweet face glowed in thehow you happened to think that Tobe was soh for to--"

"I was insanely jealous" Mostyn put his arainst his, and pressed his lips to hers "I was mad and crazy I couldn't think--I couldn't reason Dolly, I love you I love you with all reatly surprised at the avowal She put her hand on the side of his face and gently stroked it Then, of her own accord, she kissed hihtly on the lips "There," she said, "that will do for to-night I ought not to be here like this--you know that--but I am happy, and--"

"You have not said"--he held her closer to hiain--"you have not said that you love hed, contentedly "You have known it all these years I have never cared for any one else, or thought of any one else since you were here before I was only a child, but I was old enough to know my heart You are the onlyit--you know I love you You know I couldn't help it I'd be a queer girl if I didn't"

He tried to detain her at the steps, but she would not stay She entered the house, leaving the door open so that he o up to his room