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She re-entered the hut, flung off her bonnet and cloak, and approached

the sufferer He had begun anew those terrible s, and his

hands were cold As soon as she saw hiony of mind which the stimulus of her journey had thrown off for a

ti? She bathed hi there before her was he who had loved her more

than the mere lover would have loved; had martyred himself for her

coht of

caring This mood continued till she heard quick, smart footsteps

without; she knehose footsteps they were

Grace sat on the inside of the bed against the wall, holding Giles's

hand, so that when her husband entered the patient lay between herself

and hi Grace only Slowly he

dropped his glance and discerned who the prostrate h Grace's distaste for her husband's company had aht, at thiswas personal Sensitive fe purpose, and that it was a husband who stood there was

forgotten The first look that possessed her face was relief;

satisfaction at the presence of the physician obliterated thought of

the man, which only returned in the form of a sub-consciousness that