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Fay for her goodnight kiss.
not fail now in the one thing which
desire more than all else in the
world. | ask, l beg of you that
when 1 return you will give me an
opportunity to win your love, to
make you care!"
"Oh, 1 should not have listened
to you," Fay cried in distress Il
admire you, 1 honor you for the
splendid things that you have done,
and II am proud of your friend
ship, but l could never feel toward
you as you wish"
will you tell me one thing
! truly?" He possessed himself of
one of her hands and held it firmly.
rs there any one else? Am l
trespassing2 Have you found some
one else for whom you carer"
Fay shook her head
'There-there is no one" she
asid family.
Then 1 am satisfied" He
lowered above her and laid both
hands gently on her shoulders. Il
am willing to take my chance. oh,
my dear, my dear, 1 shall make
you love mel"
Il must not let you go away with
never care for you, not in the way
you mean"
He smiled.
I'VE will wait"
CHAPTER ".
| The scene with Kenneth CLAYTON
had taken all the glow and won
dor. hot
| Captain Warren, and Fay felt dis
pirited and dimly dismayed as she
lay awake. She had come to look
upon Clayton as a family friend;
| now all at once he had shattered
| that point of view and she felt as
| though he were stranger.
Soft footsteps nearing her door
and whispered good night
aroused her from her troubled
thoughts. She turned her head as
the door opened and Laurel tip
toed in shimmering vision in her
pearl-beaded gown.
Goodness, Are you awake yet,
Fay she whispered.
! Il don't feel sleepy" Fay re-
sponded.
! There was a curious hesitancy in
Laurel's tone, the same nervously
tense attitude that Fay had OBJ
I served on the day of her return.
| I'm glad you aren't sleepy, for
there's something that l want to
| tell you; 1 wanted to ever since you
came home, but l didn't know how
you would feel about it"
| Fay raised herself upon her pill
lows.
Tell me- she said. as it some
thing about yourself?'
Laurel nodded as she stepped out
of the shimmering gown and slipped
a kimono over her shoulders
| Il wouldn't for the world have
you think that l had been a deceit
! full little cat and deliberately set
out to take away from you some
one you cared for, while you were
sacrificing yourself over in France"
/ Her voice was very low, but she
raised her head a bit defiantly as
she let down her ripping dark hair.
But people can't help changing
sometimes; they can't help the die
tates Of their own heart
Whatever are you trying to tell
me, Laurel?" demanded Fay.
Some one 1 care fort" l cannot
| understand.
Its Harry" Laurel blurted
out. When you misjudged his mo-
tives so terribly you simply killed
his affection for you, and you may
as well know it! He says that you
don't care either, any more; that
you told him so fatty at the beach
yesterday morning, and l do hope
for your sake, Fay dear, that 1t is
! true"
ut is Fay affirmed I'D for
gotten he was alive until you men
toned him the other day. You
don't mean to say that you-you-
EYES," replied Laurel slowly.
After you had gone Harry turned
to me for sympathy. did think
that you had treated him very bad
| ly. Something drew him to me and
| he saw at last that we had been
meant for each other from the very
beginning"
She uttered this highly original
| explanation in a dreamy, ecstatlc
voice, and Fay restrained a smile
I'm very glad" she said soberly.
Harry and / never really cared for
each other, Laurel. dear: we only
thought that we did. I hope with
! all my heart that you viii be happy.