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"I'll teach you to run away as soon as o"

"I tan't unbuttonbeen re her conscience by being extra severe now She hurried her charge away

Suddenly Moya stopped "Pleathe, my han'erchif"

"Have you lost it? Where is it?"

"I had it in the chair"

"Then run back and get it"

Moya's thin white legs flashed along the deck Like a small hurricane she descended upon the boy Her arms went around his neck and for an instant he was s about his fair head

"Dood-night, Jack"

A kiss fell helter-skelter on his cheek and she was gone, tugging a little handkerchief froain Before she was up he and his father left the boat at Quebec Jack wondered whether she had been sht of her, but the excitehts effaced from his mind the first romance his life had known

But for nearly a week Moya added a codicil silently to her prayer "And, God, pleathe bless Jack"