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monstrating with you"
ole was demonstrating with me-" said
Hamilton, biting his lip. "Ile thought
was wrong in the course | took with my
cousin. ] see ! was now but we were
boys together and he was always smaller
and weaker. And his mother believed
he stopped.
"His mother believed no one else could
save him put in Donald, "and you made
"a burnt Offering of yourself. Go on"
Hanitrn lifted his stays eyes to Mrs
IIuntingdons.
Ills mother was very fond of him." he
said III II low tone "She was II little
creature and suffered great deal She
has been very Kind to me. | was fond OF
her"
Mrs. Huntingdon quite flushed with
pleasure. She began to adore him.
"Oh, how cruel we were to YOU" she
said. "What can we say
"Only-only,' said Hamilton, "that you
will think better Of me- But his ewes
implorcd something else also, and happl-
ness lcaped into them as She held out her
hand.
When Nell came down to dinner the
first thing Hamilton saw was that her aiI
of cold dsdain had fed, the next thing
that She wore the dress he had seen in the
moonlight. Her luVeliucss was SO soft
encd that il was new thing. Ii he had
been Jack Hamilton and had dared to neg
ICCt his dinner ana look at her as he did
on this occasion he would have been stig
matizcd as "a presumptuous criminal. As
it was. Donald and Mrs. Huntingdon
were very good to him and exhibited in
their kindness the most beautiful tact.
Was it Donald who took his mother up
stairs after the meal was over and they
had sat talking for an hour or was it Mrs.
Huntingdon who took Donald to show
him his apartments 1t mattered not i'm
the least to Hamilton when the door
closed and he found himself alone with
Nell.
He had always been an impetuous per
son and he was no less impetuous now.
And yet 1t was Nell who spoke first. There
was one thrilling moment of silence and
then she looked mp at him with the most
lovely appeal IN hereycs
81 know ought to ask your pardon, -
She said. "Nou cannot know how wretch
ed | leel-how in the WronG-how-Oh,
how sorry
He rose from his own seat and came
and took the one her mother had left close
to her own.
Don't be sorry he said, his voice low
with impassloned happiness. There has
been sorrow enough-you don't knoW-it
you are sorry ! must be. Let me have
nothing but hlpplnss.
"Oh but sHld Nell, think what |
aid to yOll-What cruel untrue things
men You were IN sUch trouble When All
world should have been kind to you.
can't bear it ~
.-u, pttt OUt her hand in a pretty, pa
.uct,c GESTURE. To say that the next in
liant hamilton held it pressed close with
% his uNu sceus almost unnecessary.
He looked at hera second adoringly.
"WcN,' ne said at last, abe sorrY-a
little, since it makes you look at me like
nat
Then Nell ceased to look at him at all.
Her cNchds fell and she became rose in
bloom.
"No,' he implored, "don't do that.
You oweme something; pay me by being
kind" Which was perhaps trife I'm
worthy. Yet there are occasions when
man is but dust. "You must You-you
will" He held her hand closer and clos
er and his own was trembling. Il shall
say too much" he said rashly, II know
shall but can't help it. You have alb,
horred me SO long that you can't think of
me as las wish you could. But you
said those things-the things You said that
night-were untrue. You know you said
you hated me. viii you tell me now that
you didn't? ?"
He bent over her uuconsciously drawing
her little closer to him with the hand he
held--and yet he could hardly hear her
low voice as she answered;
"Ies-I will" she said. ~ did-not"
All" he cried, IF you only knew how
happy you make me. If you only could