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], you, was obliged to submit. AS be was

you, was obliged to submit. AS he was
then too i'll to be opposed
''But you inherit the estatev' l repeat
ed, with the same melancholy irony
II inherit it-well?''
She gazed fxedly at me.
IF you were in my place. what would
you Think exclaimed.
t'Just what you will think" and she
drew a small packet from her pocket
and handed it to me, saying, Forgive
the old man and destroy this proof of his
delirium."
Twas too much astonished to speah.
My hands trembled. Confusedly I real
lied how wrong had been in blaming
her. -. --.-s
"What do you mean?'' finally STAN
mered. ".-.
''That is the will. give it to you, and
you remain the heir of your unhappy
uncle s.
was so overcome by her answer
that l was obliged to lean against the
wall for support-so ashamed chat
could not look her in the tace-her
whom had so basely accused. r.
After few minutes l collected myself
and begged in a supplicating voice:
"Forgive me! Take back this packet
would rather die than accept the es-
tate on such conditions"
"And r. she exclaimed Eehemently
and disdainfully. do you think that l
will touch it? Do you link that would
defle myself by steal lg?'
Il have misundera GOD YOU" l ex-
claimed. II have acted like brute.
am miserable fool"
1T does not matter now. We shall
probably never see each other again. {"
She spoke gently in an absent manner.
Her beautiful eyes had faraway look,
and now knew that she was really pure.
innocent, stainless.
"Ah!" murmured. "Of what use is
the money to mel To receive it thus
from your hands is the hardest of pun
ishments. Twill not haveit! To receive
it from you who refused me so coldly,
from you who despise me with such hu-
initiating gentleness! should consider
myself disgraoed for ife!'
"What do you say? Disgraced be-
cause retuln to you what belongs to
you? Because refuse to profit by the
unreasonable whim of an invalid?"
She retreated a few steps, and her ad-
mirable beauty filed my heart with
alteration. ''Ah! why would you not
accept my lover" cried. "Why would
you let me have no part in your ifer'
81 was poor girl, treated with ki1 l.
ness and trusted. I should have W
trayed that kindness and trust in is;.n-
ing to you"
"Would you have listened to me then
if you had been rich?' I exclaimed.
She cast down her eyes and remained
minute undecided. Then lifting her
long eyelashes she said simply:
Il think so!''
My excitement increased, words failed
me, and could only stammer:
"But now-you CAM
She motioned me to be silent. After q
few minutes of deep thought she said:
''Today think that I have the right
to listen to you. Ny refusal or accept
ance depends now only upon my own in
clination."
approached and implored her:
"Accept my life or refuse it!'
II willin refuse" she answered gen.
tly. And suddenly smiling sweetly she
said, with subtle feminine irony:
II would never have refused it, for if
you fell quickly in love with me I, too,
was not slow in loving you"
caught Laure's hands and kissed
them humbly, but she gently drew them
away and begged me to remember the
presence of the dead, which, to tell the
truth, I had almost forgotten.
Thus I captured my inheritance.-Ro-
nance.