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The Man from
Brodney's'
By GEORGE BARR
• McCU TCHEON
Copyright 10o8, by. Dodd, Mead
& Co.
Thc Princess Gericvra was standing bef
him, her hand touching her turban in'
salute.
ing from the ghostly darkness. An
electric lantern shot a ray of light.
athwart the scene.
"Drop your guns—quick!" command:
ed Chase. "Don't make a row!" •
Paralyzed with fear and amazement;
the men obeyed.
While the three -white men keptthem
covered with their rifles Selina ran to
the gate, uttering the shrill cry of a
night bird. There was a rush of feet!
inside the walls, subdued exclama=
tions, then n glad cry.
"Quick!" called Selim. The keys
rattled in the locks, the bolts were
thrown down, and rean instant later,
Lady, Deppingham was flying across.
the space • which intervened between,
Tiie men were beside her a moment
later, possessed of the weapons of the
helpless sentinels. With a crash the
gates were closed, and a joyous laugh
rang out from the exultant throat 6
Hollingsworth CbaSe.
"By the Lord Harry, this is worth
svhiler be shouted. Outside the mad-
dened guards were sounding 'the tardy
alarm. The lirst 'gray shade of day
was coming into the.night.
• He saw Neenah ahead of him, stand-
ing, still in the 'center of the graveled
path. Behnd her was the tall figure
her and the gate.
soen to go out frola you for all time.
then"Iow •p
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"Ali, but then 1 will have Paris." she
cried gayly, Ile was puzzled by her
mood—but then, why not? What could
h be expected to know of the moods
of royal princesses? No more than be
could know of their loves.
Lady Deppingham was got to bed at
once. The princess, inore thrilled by
excitement than she ever had been in
her life, attended her friend. In the
sanctity of her chamber the exhausted
young Englishwoman bared her soul to
this wise, sympathetic youug woman
In Persian vestment. '
"Genevra," she said solemnly in the
end, "take warning from my example.
When you once are married don't trifle
with other men—not even if you should
not love your husband. Sooner or later
you'd get tripped up. It doesn't pay,
my di" I never realized until tonight
how h I really care for Deppy, and
I am horribly afraid that I've lost
something I can never recover."
"You were not in love with Mr.
Browne. That is why I can't under-
stand 'you, Agnes." r
"My clear, I don't understand my-
self. How can I expect you or my
husband to understa, .1 v'e? How
could I expect it of Bobby BrOwnee
Genevra, you are in love—madly in
love—with Hollingsworth Chase. Take
my advice. Marry him. Hers one man
in a"— Genevra placed her band over
the lips of the feverish'young woman.
"I will not listen to anything more
about Mr. Chase," she said firmly. - "I
am tired—tired to death—of being told
that I should marry him."
"13ut you love him," Lady Agnes
manage to mumble despite the gentle
impediThent
"I do love him—yes, I do love him!"
cried the princess, casting reserve to
the winds. "He knows it—every one
knows it. But marry him? No—no—
no! I shall marry Karl. My father,
my mother, my grandfather, have said
so, and 1 -have said it tob. That ends
it, Agnes. Don't speak of it again."
She cast herself down upon the side
of the bed and clinched her hands in
the fierceness of despair and—decision.
After a moment Lady Agnes said
dreamily: "I climbed up the ladder to
make a 'ladyship' of myself by mar-
riage, and I find I love my husband. I
dare say if you should go down the
ladder a few rounds, my dear, you
might be as lucky. But take my ad-
vice. If you won't marry Hollings-
worth Chase, don't let him come to
Paris,"
The Princess Genevra lifted her face
instantly, a staatled expression in ber
eyes.
"Agnes, you forget yourself!"
"My dear," murmured Lady Agnes
ale-epily, "forgive me, but I have such
a shockingly absent Inlpd." She was
asleep a moment later.
itb_p_aemitiene_laieleby_aarowne. dis-
of a man.
"You ate a • trump, Neenah," cried
Chase, hurrying up to her, "a Persian
angel!"
It was not Neenah's laugh that re-
plied. Chase gasped in amazement
'and then uttered a cry of joy.
The Princess °emelt, slim and
erect, was standing before him,ber
hand touching her tneban in true mill- i
tary salute, soft laughter rippling from
her lips.
In the exuberance of joy he clasped
that little hand and crushed it against
his lips. '
"You!" he exclaimed.
"Sh!" she warned., "I have retained
my guard of honor."
He looked beyond her and beheld the
tall, soldierly figure of a Rapp -Thor -
berg guardsman.
"Tbe devil!" fell involuntarily from
his lips.
"Not at all! He is here to keep me
from going to the devil!" she cried so
merrily that he laughed aloud with
her in the spirit of unbounded joy.
"Come! Letitia run after the others.
I -want to run •nnd danoe and sing."
He till held her baud as they ran
swiftly down the drive, followed close-
ly by the faithful sergeant.
"You are an angel," he said, in her
ear. She laughed as she looked up
into his face.
"Yes—a Persian angel," she cried.
"It's so much easier to run well in a
Persian augel's costume," she added.
daining all commands and entreaties,
refused to be pelt to bed until he had
related the story of their capture .and
the subsequent events that made the
night memorable. He sat with his
rigid arm about his wife's shoulders.
Drusilla was stroking one of his hands
in a half consciousmanner, her eyes
staring past bis face toward the dark
forest from which he had come. Mr.
Britt • was ordering brandy for his
trembling client.
"After all," said Browne, hoarse
with nervousness, "there is some good
to be derived from our experiences,
hard as it may be to believe. I have
found out the means by which Rasula
Intends to destroy every living crea-
ture in the chateau." Chase threw off
his spell of languidness and looked
hard at the speaker. "Rasula coolly
asked me at one of our resting places
f there baa been any symptoms of
poisoning among tis. 1 mentioned
Pong and the servants. The devil
augbed gleefully in niy face and told
me that it was but the beginning. I
tell you, Chase. we can't escape the
diabolical scheme he has arranged.
The water that comes to us fromithe
springs up there in the bills is to be
pnisonod bv,,4 those devils. 1 bearn
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CHAPTER XXIX.
A PRESCRIBED MALADY.
OU are wonderful, staying out
there all night watching for—
us." Ile wts about to say
"How could any one sleep? Neenah
found this dress for me. Aren't these
baggy trousers funny? She rifled the
fete Mr. Wyckholme's wardrobe. This
costume one adorned a sultana, I'm
told. I wore it tonight beeense 1 was
much less conspicuous as ii--.ultanti
than I might have 'been had 1 gone to
the wall as a princess."
like you best as the princess," he
said, frankly surveying her in the gray
light.
"I think 1 like myself as the princess,
too," she said naively. Be Sighed
deeply. They were quite close to the
excited' group 'en the terrade when she
sat:: "I am Very, very happy .nowe
after .the most Miserable night I have
evenekhoWn. I was se troubled and
afraid"—
"Just becatile 1 went itway for that
little While? , Don't forget that 1 em
HAD VERY BAD
CQU011
And Tickling Sensa-
tion in Throat.
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine
Syrup Cured It.
Miss C. Danielson, Bowsman River,
Man., writes:—"Last fall I had a very
bad cough and a tickling sensation in
my throat. It was so bad I could not
sleep at night. so I went to a druggist and
told him I wanted something for my cold,
and he advised me to try Dr. Wood's
Norway Pine Syrup wbich I did, and after
taking one bottle I was Completely cured.
Let me recommend Dr. Wood' i Norway
Pine Syrup to anyone who suffers from a
cough or throat irritation."
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is
without a doubt one of the greatest cough
and cold remedies on the market to -clay,
and so great has been its success there
are numerous preparations put tip to
imitate it, )3o not be iniposed Upon by
taking one of these substitetes, but
insist on being given "Dr. Wood's" when
you ask for it, Price, 25 tents a bottle;
put up in a yellow Wrapper; three pine
trees the trade mark; tnattufactured only
by he 'r. Milburn Co., Lfitjr...4 Toronto
Oat,
givlug inetruetions to orre of
hie lieutenants, He thought 1 Was still
unconscious from it blow I received
When I tried to iuterfere in behalf .of
Lady Agnes, who was being romelaly
dragged along tbe mountaiu road.
Day mid night a detachment of men
are to be employed at the springs, de-
liberately engaged in the attempt to
change the tow of pure water into a
BMW, subtle, deadly potion, the (erects
of which will not be immediate// fa-
tal, but positively so in the couree of
a few days. In the end we shall eick-
en and die as vith the scourge. '1 lrey
will call. it tliffTlague."
A' shudder of horror swept through
the crowd. Eveeky one looked into els
neighbor' e face with a profoend Inquire
Ing light in his eyes, seeking for the
first thee evidence of approaching
ea th
Hollingsworth Chase uttered a short,
scornful hough as he unconcernedly lift-
ed a match to one of his precious eiga-
rettes. The others stared at him in
amazement.
"Great Ged, Chase." groaned Browne,
"is this a joke?"
"Yes,eand it's on Rasula," said the
other Iaconioally, "You say that Re-
sula isri't `aware of the fact that you
overhearehat he .said to his man.
Then, even now, lei spite of your es-
cape, he believes that we may go on
drinking the water: without in the
least suspecting what it has in store
for us. 'Good! That's why I say the
joke Is en him.Br,
sawne you are a
docthr, a chemist. C;Vell, we'll distill
and double and triple distill the water.
That's all, A schoolboy might have
thought of that. It's all right, old
man. You're fagged out. Your brain
isn't working well. Don't look so
crestfallen. Mr. Britt, you and Mr.
Saunders will give 'immediate instruc-
tions that no more • water is tea be
drunk or used until M. Browne has
had a few hours' rest. He can take
an alcohol bath, and we can all dr -ink
wine. It wort hurt us. At 10 o'clock
sharp Dr. Browne will begin operating
the distilling apparatus in the labora-
tory. By Jove, will you listen to the
row my clients are making out there
in the woods! They seem to be an-
noyed over something."'
Outside'the walls the islanders were
shouting and calling to each other.
Rifles were cracking far and near,
voicing in their peculiarly spiteful way
the rage that reigned supreme.
As Chase ascended the steps Bobby
Browne and his wife came up beside
hini.
"Chase," said Browne in a low voice,
his face turned away to hide the mor-
tification that filled his aoul, "you are
a man! I want you• to know that I
thank you from the bottom of my
heart."
."Never mind, old man! Say no
more," interrupted Chase, suddenly
embarrassed.
"I've be n a fool, Chase. I .don't de-
serve the friendship of any one—not
even that of my wife. It's all over,
though. You understand'? I'm not a
coward. 141 do anything yen say, take
any risk, to pay for the trouble I've
caused you all. Send me out • to
fight"— ,
"Nonsense! Your wife needs you,
Browne. . I dare say that I wouldn't
have been above the folly that got
the better •of yon. Only"—be hesitat-
ed for a minute—Nnly it couldn't have
happened to me if I bad a wife as dear
and as good and sat pretty as the one
you have."
Browne was silent for a long time,
bis arm still about Drusilla's shoulder.
At the end of the long hall he ,said,
with decision in his voice:
"Chase, you may ten your- clients
that, so far as I am concerned, they
may have th,e beastly island ned every-
thing that goes with it. 1 'a-nugh
with it all. I shall dischari,.. IlrOt
and"—
"My dear boy, it's most magnani-
mous of you!" cried Chase merrily.
"But I'm afraid you can't decide the
question In such an offhand manner.
Take good entre of him. Mrs. Browne.
Don't let 'him talk."
She held out her hand to him impul-
sively. As he gallantly lifted the cold
fingers to his lips she said, without
taking her almost hungry gaze from
his face: "Thank you, Mr. Chase. ,
• shall never forget you."
He stood there looking after them as
they went up the stairway, a 'smiled
expression in his face.
"1 guess he'll be a good boy from
now on." But he wondered what it
was that he had seen or felt in her
somber gaze.
In fifteen minutes he was sound
asleep in his room, his long frame re-
laxed, his hands wide open in utter
fatigue: He dreamed of a. Hennex girl
with Genevra's brilliant/ ace instead
Cf tbe vague, greenish features that
haunt the vision with their subtle
mysticism,
He was awakened at noon by Selim,
who obeyed his instructions to the
minute. The eager Arab rubbed the
soreness and stiffness out of his mas-
ter's body with copious applications of
alcohol.
"I'm sorry you awoke me, Selim,"
said the master enigmatically. Selim
drew back, dismayed. "You drove her
away." Selim's eyes blinked with be-
wilderment. "I'm afraid she'll never
come back."
"Excellency!" trembled on the lips of
the mystified servant.
"Ah, me!" sighed the master resign-
edly. "Shesmiled so divinely. Benne?
girls never smile, db they, Sellm?
Have you noticed that they are always
pensive/ PerliapS you haven't It
doesn't matter. But this one smiled.
I say," coming boa to earth, "have
they begun to distill the water? I've
got a frightful thirst."
"Yes, occellettcy. The Sahib Browne
is at work. One Of the servants be -
me slek ttaday. New no one is drink-
ing the water l3aiIIo Its bringittg in
ice Irmo the StOtehoutlee And Melting
it but the .supply is, net lenge. =eels
iamb you will take Selim te live with
you in Paris?" lie said after awhile
wistfully. "I will be your slave."
"Puris?. Who the dielten$ 441(1' allY-
thing about Paris?" demanded Chase,
startled.
• "Neenah says you will go there to
live, sahib. Does not the most glorious
princess, live in Paris?"
"Selim, you've been listening to gos-
sip. It's a frightful habit tb get into,
'Put cotton in your ears. But if I were
to take you, what would become of lit.
tie Neenah?"
"Oh, Neenah?" said Sella) easily. "lf
she would be a trouble to you. excel-
lency, 1 Can sell her to a man 1 know."
Chase looked blackly at tie' eager
Ariih, who quailed.
"You misevable dog!"
Sethi] gasped, "Excellency!"
"Don't you, love her?" or
' "Yes, yes, sahib—yes! 1!tft if she
would be a trouble to you-- no!" pro-
tested the Arab all x titOSly. chaSe
leughed as be came to appreciate the
sacrifice his servant would !twice for
him.
"I'll take yon with me. Sella), wher-
ever I go—and if 1 go- but, air lad.
we'll take Neenah along, todelo save
trouble. She's not fur sale, my good
Benue" The husband of N ee tin LI radi-
ated joy.
"'There she may yet be the slave of
the most glorious princess: Allah is
great! The most glorious one has
asked her if she will not come with
Thern'iu:S.e'13'11.133'"do 't repeat the gossip you
ilks,
ornmanded tire master °nit-
pick up when l'rn not around."
CHAPTER XXX.
TEE TWO WOR1.DS.
WO days and nights crept slowly
into tbe past, and now the
white people of the _chateau had
coine t the eve Of their last
day's stay on the island of Japat. The
probationary period would expire with
the. sun on the following day, the an-
niversary of the death of Taswel4
Skaggs. The six months set aside by
the testator as sufficient for all the re-
quirements of Cupid were to come to
an inglorious end at 7 o'clock on March
29. According to .the will, if Agues
Ruthven and Robert Browne were not'
marrion to each other before the close
of that day all of their rights in the
estate were lost to them.
Tomorrow would be the last day of
residence required. But, alack, was it
to be the last that tkey were to spend
in the world forsaken eand?
No later thau thateinorniug a steam-
er—a small Dutch freighter—had come
to a stop off the barbor, but it turned
tail and fled within an hour. No one
carrie ashore. Tbe malevolent tug
went out and turned back the landing
party' wbich was ready to leave the
ship's side. The watchers in the cha-
teau knew what it was that the tug's
captain shouted through his taumpet at
a safe distance from the steamer. The
black and yellow flags at the end of
the company's pier lent color to a
grewsorae story. The hopeless look
deepened in the eyes of the watchers.
Hollingsworth Chase alone maiutain-
ed a stubborn air of confidence and
unconcern.
"Don't be downhearted, Bowles," he
said to the moping British 'agent.
"You'll soon be managing the bank
again and patronizing the American
bar with the same old regularity."
There bad been several vicious as-
saults upon the gates by the infuriated
islanders during the day following the
rescue of the heirs. Some powerful in-
fluence suddenly exerted itself to re-
store them to a state of calmness.
They withdrew to the town, apparent-
ly defeated. The cause was obvious—
Resole had convinced them that death
already was lifting his hand to • blot
out the lives of those who opposed
them. •
Bobby Browne was accomplishing
wonders in the laboratory. He seldom
was seen outside the distilling room.
His assiduity was marked, if not com-
mented upon. Hour after hour he
stood watch over the water that went
up in vapor and returned to the crystal
liquid that was more precious than
rubies and sapphires.
Drusilla kept close to his side dur-
ing these operations. She seemed
afraid or ethernet] to join the others.
She avoided Lady Deppingham as
completely as possible. Her effort to
be friendly when they were thrown,
together was almost pitiable.
As .for Lady Agnes, she seemed
stricken by an unconquerable lassi-
tude. The spirits that had controlled
her voice, her look, her movements,
were sadly missing. More than once
Genevra had caught her watching Dep-
ninaharn with eyes that spoke vol-
.umes, though they were mute • end
wistful.
From time to time the sentinels
brought to Lord Deppingham and
Chase infests -es that had been tossed
over the walls by the emissaries' of
Rasula. They were written by the
leader himself and in every instance
expressed, deepest sympathy for . the
plague ridden chateau,
''There's a paucity of real news in
thee(' gentle inessnges that annoys
tue." Chase said after reading aloud
the hist (4 the epistles to the princess
and 1 he I reppingliams. "I rejoice in
niy heart i hat, he Isn't a Ware of the
true slit te of a ffii it's. Ile doesn't tip-,
prolate the real calamity that con-
frorits its. 1".e plague? Polson? Mere
piffle, If he only 1 :iv 1 't I aln now
smoking my last—the last—cigarette
on the plaee!"
"1 believe you *Mild die more cer-
tainly from lack Of clgarette8 than
from tin oretablindanee of • polSon,"
said Genevra, She Vas thinking Of
the stock she bad hoarded up for him
in her . dreasing tablet drawer, tinder
lock and key.
"I day, Chase, can't you just See
*Ole* face ,*hen lit aerial the
we've Oeen arresoug tile water all
. along and haven't passed away?"
cried Deppinghatu.
"And to think, Mr. Chase, we Once
called ypti the " Said LOY
Agnes n a low, dreamy voice. ,
"I appear to have outlived my use.
fulnees in that respect," be said, He
tossed the stub' of bis cigarette over
the Italeouy rail, "Goodbyl" he said,
with melancholy emphasie. Then he
bent an inquiring lot* upon the face -
of the princess.
"Yes," she said, as if he had asked
the question aloud. "You shall have
three a day, that's all."
"You'll leave the entire fortune to
me when you sail away, I trust," he
said. The Deppingbams were puzzled,
"But you also will be sailing away."
she argued.
"I? You forget that I have had no
orders to return. Sir John expects me
to stay. At least, so I've heard in a
roundabout way."
"You don't mean to say, Chase, that
you'll stay on this demmed island if
the chance comes to get away?" de-
manded Lord Deppingham earnestly.
The two women were looking at him
in amazement.
"Why not? I'm an ally, not a de-
serter,"
"You are a madman!" cried Lady
Agnes. "Stay here? They would kill
you in a jiffy! Absurd!"
"Not after they've had another good
long look at my warships, Lady Dep-
pingham," he replied, with a most re-
assuring smile. "I think I'll take a
stroll along the wall before turning
He arose and leisurely started to go
indoors. The princess called to him,
and he paused.
"Wait," she said, coming up to him.
-They walked down the hallway togeth-
er. "I will run_ upstairs and unlock
the treasure cbest. I do not trust
even my maid. You shall have two
tonight. No more."
"You've really saved them for me,"
he queried, n note of eagerness in his
voice, "all these days?"
"1 have been your miser," she said
lightly and then ran -up the stairs.
He looked after her until she disap-
peared at the top with a quick, shy
glance over her shoulder. An exert's.
"/ cannot bear the thought of leaving you
behind."
sion of utter dejection came into ids
face. A haggard look replaced the
buoyant smile.
"God, how I love her—how I love
ber!" he groaned, half aloud.
She was coming down the stairs
now, carger, flushed, more abashed
than e:ar would have had him know.
Without a word she placed the two
cigarettes in his outstretched palm.
Her eyes were shining.
In silence he clasped her band and
led her unresisting through the win- ,
dow and out upon the broad gallery.
She was returning the fervid pressure
of his fingers, warm and electric.
They crossed slowly to the rail. Two
chairs stood close together. They sat
down side by side. The power of
speech seemed to have left them alto-
gether.
He laid the two cigarettes on the
broad stone rail. She followed the
movement with perturbed eyes and
then leaned forward and placed her
elbows on the rail.
"If the ship should come tomorrow
you would go out Of my life—you would
go away and leave me here," he began
hoarsely.
"No, nol" she cried, turning upon him
suddenly. "You could not stay here.
You shall not!"
"But, dearest love, I am bound to
stay. 1. cannot go. And, God help me,
I want to stay. If I could go into your
world and take you unto myself for-
ever—if you will tell me now that tame
day you may forget your world and
come to live in mine—then'ab, then, it
would be different! But without you
I have no choice of abiding place—
here as well as anywhere."
She put her hands over her eyes.
"I cannot bear the thought of—of
leaving you behind—of leaving you
here to die_ at the hands of those beasts
down theme. Hollingsworth, I iniplere
you—corbel If the opportunity comes
'—and it Will, I know—you will leave
the island with the rest of Us?"
"Not =leas I am commanded to do
so by the man who sent me here to
serve these beasts, as you call there,"
Ile leaned oVer and tot* her hand in
his. "Yell do love me?"
"You know 1 do—yes, yeSI" She cried
from het heArt, keeping her, facet rapt.
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Sick with love for you. \A try should
deny the ttUiig I lint spealte so Media'
for itself—my ilea rt! 1.1sten; Cap you
not bear it bea' ing? It is irtirtiog ma—
,
yes, it is burtiog me!"
trembled at tak exhibition af
leased. unchecked passion, rind yet he
did not clasp 1rer In his, arms.
"Will you come into any world, GO-
nevrti ?" he whispered. "All my life
Weald be spent in guarding the love
you would give to me—all any life giVOIS
to making you love me more and morel
until there will be no other world. for
you to think of."
"I wish that 1 had not been
she sobbed: "I cannot, dearest—I cau'i
not change the la wg' of fate. I am
fated—I am doomed to live forever III
the dreary world of my fathers., Butr
how can I give yen up? HOW' can 1
give. up your love? How can 1 cast
you out of my life?" ' • ,
"You do not love Prince. Karl?"
"How can you ask?" she cried Beret)
ly. "Am I not loving you with all man
heart and soul?" '
"And you would leave me behind lfi
the ship sbould come?" he persisted
with cruel insistence. "Yon will go'
back and marry that—him? Loving)
ine, you will marry him?" Her head
dropped upon her arm. Re turned,
cold as death. "God belp and God pity;
you, my love. never knew before' .
what your little world means to yott,1
I.give you up to it. I crawl back intail
the one you look down upon with': •
scorn. I shall not again ask you tt$
descend to the world where love is."
Her hand lay limp in his. They,
sta bleakly out into the night, and
no wend was spoken.
The minutes became an hour, and
yet they sat there with set faces
bursting hearts, unseeing eyes.
Below them in the shadows Bobby.;
Browne was pacing the embankment::
his wife drawn closl to his side. Threei,
men, Britt. Sounders and Bowles, were
smoking their pipes on the edge of
the terrace. Their words came up tc
the two in the gallery.
"If I have to die tomorrow," Saun-
ders, the bridegroom, was saying, witli
real feeling in his voice, "I should say
with till my heart that my life hat,
been less than a week long. The rest!
of it was nothing. I never was happy
before, and happiness is everything:" ,
CHAPTER XXXI;
THE SIM'S TUAT PASS.
ITHE next morning was rainy.,
A quick. violent storm had
rushed up from the sea dur-
ing the night.
Chase, after a sleepless night, came
clown and. without waiting for hist
breakfast, burrird out upon the ga1-
l4
lery overlooking the harbor. Genevra;
was there before him, pale, wistful
heavy eyed, standing in the shelter of
n huge pilaster. •
"Hollingsworth," .she said dreaxily,i
"do you believe he will come today?"
"He?" he asked, puzzled.
"My uncle. The yacht was to call 1'0
me not later than today."
"I remember," he said slowly. "
GVI
may come, euevras The day IS
young." t
She clasped his hand convulsivelySit
desperate revolt in her soul.
"1 almost hope that it may not comer '
for me!" she said, ber voice shaking
with suppressed emotion. "It will no
come. I feel it in my heart. We sha11
die Imre together, Hollingsworth. AN
in that way I may escape the othe
life. No, no! \Vhat am I saying? OZ
course I want io%leare this 'dreadfn1i
island—this dreadful, beautiful, hate.
ful, bappy island. Am I not too sillyr'
Sbe was speaking rapidly, almost hy.sa
terically, a nervous, flickering smile orr,..
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