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"Rather htened," he answered in a difficult

whisper, and turning himself to obtain an easier position if possible

"A little water, please"

She ran across into the dining-rooerly drank He could then speak ot upon the nearest couch

"Are you dying, Edgar?" she said "Do speak to me!"

"I aet over

itIt is chiefly loss of blood"

"But I thought your fall did not hurt you," said she "Who did this?"

"Felice--my father-in-law!I have crawled to you ht I should never have got here!I

have come to you--be-cause you are the only friend--I have in the world

nowI can never go back to Hintock--never--to the roof of the

Melburys! Not poppy nor ora will ever ain--"

"Let me bind your head, now that you have rested"

"Yes--but wait a , fortunately, or I

should be a dead ed to make a

tourniquet of some half-pence and my handkerchief, as well as I could