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 "Oh—good-bye!"

"Well, I'll be—" she heard him mutter, as he went on.

He must think her a regular little fool. But, after all, it was a very serious good-bye. The next time they met, if ever they met again, she would be a different person. She would have an honorable name—a name with which she could face the world. She would be Mrs. Piers Whiteoak.