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 "I love Papa so tenderly. You can't understand how close the tie is between us, perhaps some day in our own home of which I'm dreaming you may understand as you can not now," she added softly.

"Then for your sake, dearest, I hope you can win him. But I'm afraid of this plan of yours."

"Leave it with me for a month, do just as I tell you, and then I'll obey you all the rest of our lives,—if your orders suit me," she playfully added.

She returned to Stella Holt's, and Gaston went back to his jail room and dreamed that night he was sleeping in the Governor's Palace.