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"Don't you want to eat?" he asked

"I'ry," she replied

"Well, eat anyhow--if it chokes you," he ordered

Joan seated herself while he placed food and drink before her She

did not look at hiaze upon her Far asunder

as they had been yesterday the distance between thereater She ate asthe caain, here and there, ai what she looked

at There was a shadow over her, an i dark and sharp out of the age-long

hour She leaned against the balsam and then she rested in the stone

seat, and then she had to walk again Itor short There ca of her spirit, acco, restless,

uncontrollable e of

collapse

It was then that a call fro, thrilled all

the weakness from her in a flash, and left her liain, bright against what

seeround Like a ray glance to see unovernable passion she had

sensed in hi her to hiot to pay that ransoht she resisted, but she was

unresisting She hung her head to hide her eyes Then he placed an

ared her toward the

cabin