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"It is true"

"Would you honestly tell ly into mine

"I haveher, determined to speak frankly and abide the result "All I need add is, to ment it will prove better for you to relanced aside at hi her clear cheek

"You do not like hi froeable, so in speech, not as sober of mind as I am accustomed to find men, yet it is not true I dislike him I merely believe that he will do better, be truer to his manhood, with you near hiently, "by nature of birth different from your race Besides, he has led a life filled with the dissipation of the town"

"True! for that reason I forbear judging his words and actions by any standard of my own people Yet this I cannot be blind to, Madame; he is of quick teht beco temptation, unless some moral firmness hold hiel"

She bowed her head, her gaze again far off upon the river, the deepening surge of color rising upon either cheek

"You cannot be angry," I continued gravely, after pausing vainly for a reply "Surely I have said no more than you already knew, and I spoke ry But it is not a pleasant reflection underlying the things ment of the Chevalier false Still I would press you further Is this your only reason for desiring me to remain?"

"You wish me to answer frankly?"

"Otherwise I should not ask"

I felt the quick flusheffort to respond boldly

"I had other reason To deny it would bea lie to no purpose Madaers--we could never be after that night e parted beneath the olives of Monsieur Beaujen's garden You are wife to a chevalier of France; I, a hoher ambition than to prove of service to you Whatever I have accomplished has been entirely for your sake, not for his Noe are together, the daily opportunity to serve you is mine; here I can work for you, perchance die for you, should such sacrifice proo back yonder, directly into danger as desperate as any confronting us to the northward, then Ie whether I would plunge deeper into the wilderness with your husband, or return to New Orleans with you There is a sentence in the Bible about the i two masters, hence I trust I may not be compelled to choose between, until the hour when you are both safe"