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"Oh, don't you see? He brought me back here because he--cared for irl had ever been so cruelly circus before a lover, who had not declared himself explicitly

"Cared for you? As a wolf does for a lamb!"

"At first, maybe--but not afterward Don't you see he was sorry? Everything shows that"

"And to show that he was sorry, he had poor Jesus Menendez killed!"

"No--he didn't know about that till I told him"

"Till you told him?"

"Yes When I freed him and took him to my room"

"So you freed him--and took him to your room?" She had never heard her father speak in such a voice, so full at once of anger and incredulous horror

"Don't look at me like that, father! Don't you see--can't you see----Oh, why are you so cruel to ainst the rock

Her father caught her arh her "None of that! Give er at his injustice welled up in her "You've had the truth I knew of the attack on the sheep camp--heard of it on the way home frohteen years for nothing? I knehat you would do, and I tried to save you from yourself There was no place where he would be safe but in ht I would do it again"

"Slept with Anna, did you?"

She felt again that furious tide of blood sweep into her face "Yes Froyurl, I wisht you'd keep out of my business"

"And let you do murder?"

"Why did you save him? Because you love him?" demanded Sanderson fiercely

"Because I love you But you're too blind to see it"

"And him--do you love him? Answera ainst an enereat black eyes chiselled into hers "Are you lying to irl?"

Weaver spoke out quietly "I expect I can answer that, Mr Sanderson Your daughter has givenas God ever ainst her father, for that he had forced her to drag out the secret things of her heart and speak of them in the presence of the er, full of passion