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"It was the wind!" Will Banion exclaimed "It was the sky, the earth! It

was the fire! I don't knohat it was! I swear it was not I who did it!

Don't forgive me, but don't blame me Molly! Molly!

"It had to be sometime," he went on, since she still dreay from him

"What chance have I had to ask you before now? It's little I have to

offer but my love"

"What do you ate

slowly, her hand touching his no ony of soul "You

will not let ive me some sort of chance?"

"No," she said coldly "You have had chance enough to be a gentleman--as

much as you had when you were in Mexico with other woimental accounts I know that too I

didn't--I couldn't believe it--till now"

He remained dumb under this She went on mercilessly

"Oh, yes, Captain Woodhull told us Yes, he showed us the very

vouchers My father believed it of you, but I didn't Now I do Oh,

fine! And you an officer of our Ar

"Chance? What irl--any other way than this It would have to be sometime, you say

What do you mean? That I'd ever marry a thief?"