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Rh "You, Lorine?" he cried in wonder. "You make me sure?"

"Yes; but I did not know then what sort of thing that could be. And then I met those English people in India and went to Java with them and met the Soesoehoenan. He had been at Oxford, you know, and I suppose had learned to admire the English women; and when he saw and heard about me, I suppose he thought that here was a woman of white blood whom he could ask to marry him without her thinking it an insult. And when he did ask me, there came into my mind the maddest, craziest of all the mad and crazy things that I had ever done.

"I arranged for the Soesoehoenan to send the emerald here; I made my plans to be here. I was going to tell you of the Soesoehoenan when you found out from someone else; and