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She could get no further Covering her eyes with one hand, by an

effort of repression she wept a silent trickle, without a sigh or sob

Winterborne took her other hand "What has happened?" he said

"He has come"

There was a stillness as of death, till Winterborne asked, "You et away?"

"Yes," said she "Appearance is no ht

I have said to myself I can trust you"

Giles knew from this that she did not suspect his treachery--if it

could be called such--earlier in the summer, when they met for the last

time as lovers; and in the intensity of his contrition for that tender

wrong, he determined to deserve her faith now at least, and so wipe out

that reproach froht a lantern"

He unhooked a dark-lantern from a nail under the eaves and she did not

notice how his hand shook with the slight strain, or drea a convalescence which could ill afford

such self-sacrifice The lantern was lit, and they started