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200 the suspense. My very courage to die may be killed by delay; already I can feel it waning. A week of suspense and I should be coward enough even to wish to live."

"You shall know the truth. I will find it out; and when his rank unworthiness is proved to you, you will see the folly and madness of this last wild resolve. You will live to thank me yet, Gabrielle."

"Oh, why did I speak it, fool and coward that I am!" she cried, despairingly.

"It is well you did," he answered; and with this he left her.