"I sincerely hope that nothing may interfere to prevent

your meeting Mr. Glenarm's wish that you remain

through the year. That was a curious and whimsical

provision, but it is not, I imagine, so difficult."

She spoke in a kindly tone of encouragement that

made me feel uneasy and almost ashamed for having

already forfeited my claim under the will. Her beautiful

gray eyes disconcerted me; I had not the heart to

deceive her.

"I have already made it impossible for me to inherit

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under the will," I said.

The disappointment in her face rebuked me sharply.

"I am sorry, very sorry, indeed," she said coldly.

"But how, may I ask?"

"I ran away, last night. I went to Cincinnati to see

Miss Devereux."

She rose, staring in dumb astonishment, and after a

full minute in which I tried vainly to think of something

to say, I left the house.

There is nothing in the world so tiresome as explanations,

and I have never in my life tried to make them

without floundering into seas of trouble.




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