And he had lost her! Oh, God, how he loved her! And he had lost her

forever! There was no hope for him. He must save his father--not his

father's money. That counted for nothing--but his father's honour--his

father's good name.

And even if he were not bound to make this sacrifice, to marry Maude

Falconer, how could he go to Heron Hall and ask Godfrey Heron, the man

of ancient lineage, of unsullied name, to give his daughter to the son

of a man whose past was so black that his character was at the mercy of

Ralph Falconer? Stafford rose and stretched out his arms as if to

thrust from him a weight too grievous to be borne, a cup too bitten to

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be drained; then his arms fell to his sides and, with a hardening of

the face, a tightening of the lips which made him look strangely like

his father, he left the library, and crossing the hall, made his way to

the ball-room.




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