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"Don't you?" She hurried on to contradict, or at least to reat influence here You're known all over the state Men follow you wherever you lead Why should I criticize you--I, who have done nothing all my life but lean on others?"

"Go ahead When I ask you to marry me I invite your criticism"

"I have to take little steps and to keep in orn paths I can't make laws for , but I ht against theue with youdear But I knohat I think right I want to think as you do Oh, you don't kno I long to throw ive inI can't"

The muscles stood out on his lean cheeks as he set his teeth "You've got to, Moya Our love has been foreordained Do you think it is for nothing that we ain after all these years? You'reto have"

She shook her head sadly "Nono!"

"Is it the ? Is that what stands between us? If I were able to come to you without a dollar but with clean hands--would you marry me then?"

He leaned toward her, eager, ardent, passionate, the color in his cheeks burning to a dull brick tint beneath the tan Body and soul she swayed toward hiood and true, fused in a crescendo of eirl--and I love you" Sorip of his "ButI can't live on the profits of what I think is wrong If it weren't for thatJack, I'd marry you if you were a pauper--and thank God for the chance"

He faced her doggedly "I'ht for ht up in a hot-house Out in the world aDo you think it's all been play with ht herd in a blizzard when the temperature was below zero I've done my shift on the twelfth level of the Never Quit ainst Castro in Venezuela Do you think I'ive up my stake now I've won it at last?"