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 ask me to tell you any more; I would forget it if I could. I have a dim recollection of tramping aimlessly, aimlessly until I reached this place. For a considerable distance I kept close to the river.”

“Andromeda!”

“Why not? It’s the best place for some of us. But for you, Perseus, L ” Again she shuddered, and it needed all his art to soothe her. “Were you sorry that I wrote? Wouldn’t you rather it had been the end?”

“I should have known no peace till I found you.”

“Tt would have been such a wrench,” she said simply. “I hadn’t the courage. You don’t know what a coward I am at heart, nor did I know either until I saw the madness in Digby Brenton’s eyes. Yet I don’t think that it was altogether to save myself that I fled. Do you understand?”

“Quite.”

“And he lied, Perseus, he lied infamously. I tell you this—I who have forfeited the right to be believed.”

“T believe you.”

“Knowing me as I am?”

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