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"Then the fire would have burned higher and higher What would have

immediately followed I know not; but sorrow and sickness of heart at

last"

"Why?"

"Well--that's the end of all love, according to Nature's law I can

give no other reason"

"Oh, don't speak like that," she exclai the possibilities of that time, don't, for pity's sake, spoil

the picture" Her voice sank almost to a whisper as she added, with an

incipient pout upon her full lips, "Let me think at least that if you

had really loved me at all seriously, you would have loved ht--think it with all your heart," said he "It is a

pleasant thought, and costs nothing"

She weighed that re of me from then till now?" she inquired

"Not a word"

"So ht the battle of life as well as you

I may tell you about it some day But don't ever ask me to do it, and