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Rh even receiving the great gem for which she had sold herself? Or, did it mean—?

Hereford had felt that he had detected in his ward two girls. One was the girl he had known from the first in his relationship with her—self-willed, daring, glorying in and pleased by the notoriety she gained in her obstinate following of her own caprice. The other he had divined only in his two interviews with her and so indefinitely that he had not been able to formulate a personality for her in his thought; yet he knew that he had seen something in her which, in the face of all proof, had enlisted him in blind partisanship upon her side by suggesting to him that there might be some reason beyond mere folly for her mad acts. Did her visit to Baraka mean that, besides these two girls, there was still a third—unsuspected until now by