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"We'd better take her to her rooested, "and make her lie down for a while That poor fellow--as if he didn't have enough on his hands without this!"

"I'm not on his hands! And I won't lie down!" Evadna jerked away froly, her cheeks still ith tears "You act as if I don't knohat I'' and I DO know If I should lie down for a MILLION YEARS, I'd feel just the same about it I couldn't bear him to TOUCH ie interrupted, exasperatedly "Do you want him--"

"To hear? I don't care whether he does or not" Evadna was turning sullen at the opposition "He'll have to know it SOME TIME, won't he? If you think can forgive a thing like that and let--"

"He had to do it Bauht to kill He'd have been a fool and a coward if he hadn't You come and lie dohile"

"I WON'T lie down I don't care if he did have to do it--I couldn't love hio down there and threaten Stanley--and--HE'LL DO IT, TOO!" She fell to treain "He'll DO it--at sundown"

Phoebe and Miss Georgie looked at each other He would, if theto marry him!" Evadna shuddered when she said it, and covered her face with her two hands "He wasn't sorry afterward; you could see he wasn't sorry He was ready to kill more men It's the Indian in him He LIKES to kill people He'll kill those men, and he won't be a bit sorry he did it And he could come to me afterward and expect ainst the wall, and sobbed

"I suppose," she wailed, lashing herself with every bitter thought she could conjure, "he killed Saunders, too, like old Hagar said He wouldn't tellI asked hi Saunders--"

"If you don't shut up, I'll shake you!" Miss Georgie in her fury did not wait, but shook her anyway as if she had been a ten-year-old child in a tantrum

"My Heavens above! I'll stand for nerves and hysterics, and al a little bit too far,such stuff as that, and you're not going to do it, if I have to gag you! Now, you march to your own room and--STAY there Do you hear? And don't you dare let another yip out of you till you can talk sense"