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, and tried to look unconscious and impersonal. Don Lane rose now, but stood still apart. "Why do you say that, Don?" asked Anne, stepping closer to him. "Didn't you know I'd come?" She reached out her hands to him, and he caught both of them in his. "I ought to have known you would," said he, "and I know you oughtn't to. It makes it very hard. I said good-by to you--this morning--today." "Won't you kiss me--again, Don?" asked Anne Oglesby. He kissed her again, his face white. "It's hard to know you for so little a while," said he, his young face drawn, his voice trembling--"awfully hard. What time there's left to me--I'll have it all to remember you. But we must never meet after this. It's over." "Don, if I thought it was all over, do you suppose I'd let you kiss me now?" "It's like heaven," said he. "It's all I'll have to remember." "A long time, Don--a very long time!" "I can't tell. They are not apt to lose much time with my case. The only crime of my life was in ever lifting my eyes to you, Anne. Oh, you know I'd never have done that if I had known--what I found out yesterday. But then I've said good-by to you." "_I_ didn't say good-by, Don!" He half raised a hand, shaking his head sadly. "You must forget me, no matter what happens--no matter whether I am cleared or not. I'll never be the coward to ask you to remember me--that wouldn't be right. I'm beyond all hope, whichever way it goes." "I've come tonight, Don," said she, quietly, "to see about your lawyer." He half laughed. "There'll be small need for one, and if there were I've got no funds. It will take a lot of money." "Well, what of that? I've got a lot of money. My guardian told me so today. I'm worth somewhere between a quarter and a half million dollars anyway--I'm not rich--but that would help us." He laughed at this harshly. "I didn't know you had any money at all. And you think I'd be coward enough to take your money to get out of here--after what I have learned about myself since yesterday? Do you suppose I'd take my life from you--such a life as it's got to be now?" "What do you mean, Don?--you won't let me go, will you? You don't mean----" She stepped toward him, in sudden terror of his resolution. "Why, _Don_!" "Yes, yes. I spent all the afternoon here alone trying to think. Well, I won't compromise. I never meant to pull you into this--I'll not let you be dragged into it by your own great-heartedness. Bu
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