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I could see that she was controlling herself with all her will, and that

she was overwrought and intensely troubled I knew that some barrier was

between us which I could not at present surmount All she said after a

minute was: "How did you know that my name was 'Alathea'?"

"I heard your little sister call you that the day I saw you in the

Bois I think it a very beautiful name"

Silence

Her discomfort seemed to come to a climax, for after a little she spoke

"The twenty-five thousand francs beyond the twenty-five I asked you for,

I cannot return to you I feel very iveI ever

had to do in my life,--to take all this"

"Do not let it bother you, I ao now after we have selected which rooave me my crutch, and I led the way and she followed I knew

instinctively that she would choose the room which was furthest from

mine She did!

"This will do," she said immediately we entered it

"The look-out is not so nice, it only gets the earlysun," I