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 eyes are as false as your tongue. There is no truth in you—there never was. It is time an end was put to your follies. To-day I came here with a set purpose. Can you guess what it was?”

“It was your love that called you—Digby.” The word almost choked her. “You remem- bered that you had treated me unkindly, and you came to make atonement.”

“TI came to kill you,” he said.

“To kill me! Why should you kill me?’ And even while she thought he was about to spring, deep down in her soul the dumb cry was raging: “Perseus, Perseus, come to me! For the love of God come to me!”

“Because you are not fit to live; because I think it is the only way out, the only way to save you and others from further suffering.”

“W ould the killing of me make you happy?”

“Tt would be an act of justice.”

“But you would lose me too, Digby, and I don’t want to be lost to you. To kill me is to end all—when there might be so much happi- ness for both of us.”

She drew her chair close to him, but with a gesture of disdain he waved her back.

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