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red lips ouiyered.

 Ralph her face was wreathed in smiles He looked so handsome that after noon that I would have given anything to have been able to trust him.
 Within the sound of his musical voice some of my doubts did vanish, and, knowing that he had to go away on the morrow, had the grace to be- guile his mother indoors, while he and Jet went down to the lake after water lilies-at least that is what they said they were going for
 T can hardly realize that I am going away tomorrow he said, with an aud- ible tremor in his voice. II wish there was no occasion for me to do so. I suppose it's an old story to you, Miss Georgette, to hear man say that he wcald like to spend his life in your so- ciety?'
 Il have heard it before" she said slowly; ''but have not believed it al- ways"
 His face flushed for an instant, and he made q sudden gesture, but he bit his lip moment after, and turned his head away.
 "You know that I love you," he said, in low tone. .'When I go away to- morrow, will leave all my happiness behind me-"
 ''One never knows when to believe you men," Georgette said with affected l carelessness.
 T suppose it doesn't make much diff ference whether you believe us or not" he answered in a piqued tone.
 Excuse me-" she said quickly, @'but | it maL <s all the difference in the world to me-more difference, infinitely more, | than it ever could make to another wo- l man."
 '.How?"
 She paused moment.
 My position is so peculiar" she said presently. If l accepted in good faith any protestations that might be made to me. 1 would be called upon to subject | them to a trying ordeal-a test of sin cerity perhaps stronger than they could bear"
 ''You may-r
 ''As for you, MT. Dearing," she in- terrupted hastily, 'I know of old your gallant speeches, so do not take them for more than they are meant. But fancy my position if some day were to take man at his word. and entangle him in matrimonial engagement Per haps you didn't know, Mir. Dearng, that my unche only bequeathed his for tune to me condiiimally? If 1 marry an American it is to revert to q distant cousin. My uncle was bent upon me having German husband, and if married foreigner 1 was to forfeit my inherit;tnce.'
 Ralph Dearing had paled suddenly, and he caught at the branch of a tall shrub as though he sought its support.
 What very absurd provisionr' he exclaimed. "1t is no wonder. Miss Schubert, that you have resisted the pleading of so many suitors- A fortune like yours is not to be thrown away for passing fsncy- Twas not aware that you held it additionally. If Iwere only a German nobleman, now! But, alas! am only poor barrister and free-born American"
 He laughed, but there was something in his voice that made Georgette's heart strings vibrate with pain.
 He did not know, and she would not have had him know, that her money would have been as nothing in the bal ance against his love, had she only beer sure of it.
 Shall we go out on the lake?' ht asked. changing the subject so quickly that her heart gave adespairing quiver
 It was only her money then, after all that he had courted so assiduouslv.
 No" she answered, shisering slight ly. Il think it is too damp this even ing. Besides, the lilies are closing. will get some in the morning." When they came into the house, saw by her face that something haC happened.
 That night, after Ralph and his moth CT had gone, she came into my room and said simply:
 There is no room for doubt. I hay weighed him in the balance and foun, him wanting"
 Three days later she received lette from Ralph Dearing, from which this an extract:
 II love you with my whole heart, Georgette but am neither foolish nor selfish enough | ask you to marry me when know what yo would sacrifice by so doing.
 At first was afraid to ask you because , feared you might misconstrue my motive and my love for you caused me to shrink frOl [ the imputation that might have fallen upo
 ''Then when learned that by marrying IT 1 you would lose the fortune yOH were born ) enjoy, saw how wrong it would be for me expect or to ask it, though that you would fC one moment listen to my suit is nothing mol than presumption on my part" ''She gave me this with a sarcasti smile.
 s '.What does he mean about your To. ing your fortune?" 1 asked when ha Q read 1t.
 l Il told him tirat my uucle's will WI
 l. t that if I failed to marry German s would forfeit my fortune" n You never told me that!'' cried.
 No? I never cared to speak of it.
 cannot bear to have questions of inte e est and matrimony so closely col s nected."
 $ But" I ventured to observe, 's Il that case it would have been folly f.
 you to marry Ralph Dearing. He h. 1T his mother to support, and he hasn't y penny in the world"
 ''Do you think would have cared f y that?" she said, with a passionate bur }. of tears. If he had loved me, I wou 1T have gone with him to the ends of u
 earth and lived upon bread and water " I laid my hand gently on her glos ,e hair.
 It Dear little .getr' l murmured, and p felt that I could have killed Rall Te Dearing.
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 Three months passed and there car l. a change-oh, such a change!- ,s | Gha had baaO i1l