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"It will have to be so of that sort at first I've told her all this too, Lady Farquhar"

"What does that matter if we love each other?" Moya asked

"You'll find it ood deal," said Lady Jim dryly "When poverty comes in love is likely to wink out any day Of course I realize that yours is of a quality quite unusual It always is, an"

"We'll have to take our fighting chance of that," Jack replied

Moya, her eyes shining, nodded agreeain can be ithout risk She knew there was a chance that she ht not find happiness in her love But where it called her she er life certainly, to joy and to sorrow, to the fuller experiences that must come to every woman who fulfills her destiny

A voice hailed Jack Colter was hurrying up the street, plainly excited Kile of his absence to attack Moya frole "My dear, I wish I could show you how much depends on a similarity of tastes, of habits, of standards Matriht of that too Butwhen you love enough that doesn't help the adjustirl naïvely

She had appealed to Farquhar That gentleman came to her assistance "It does"

"This isn't a ed the older woman "There may be--consequences"

The color beat into the face of the young woman in a wave, but her eyes held steadily to those of Lady Farquhar

"Ihope so"

"Bravo, Moya!" applauded her guardian, clapping his hands softly

"Don't you think they--the consequences--deserve a better chance than you will give theirl chooses for the father of her children aand virile, and on top of that her lover, she is giving theratitude shone through the eyes that roup he had left "I've good news, friends This is my lucky day You reet my pockets were full of ore sa"

"Yespicked them up while you were delirious, didn't you?" Farquhar replied

"Must have, I reckon Well, you knopieces of quartz assayed Colter took these to the rade stuff"