Her head had been bending lower and lower, her voice rocking under its

weight of restrained anguish. On the word "music" she dropped her head

to her knees and was silent.

"I can't talk no more," she said, after a moment, and she stood up and

ran out of the room.

"I'll be d----d!" swore Yarnall.

But Jasper stood, his face pale, smiting one hand into the other.

"I feel that I, at least, deserve to be," he said.




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