is words rang with a terrible meaning.

"Lapierre," he said, "has gone away from here. If you see him again
you shall never forget him." His eyes returned to the girl, close-held
against his heart. Her two arms stole upward until the slender hands
closed about his neck. Her lips moved, and he bent to catch the words.

"I love you," she faltered, and glancing shyly, almost timidly into his
face, encountered there the look she had come to know so well--the
suspicion of a smile upon the lips and just the shadow of a twinkle
playing in the deep-set eyes. She repeated, softly, the words that
rang through her brain: "I love you--_Brute MacNair_!"

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