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CHAPTER XXVII,
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Helen's lips twisted into the semblance of a smile. "Would it be right to marry on just a little love?" she asked.
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Bob took the dish Helen offered him and put it on a nearby table. His eyes had not left her face..
"Better than on none at all," Bob Helen felt his gaze levelling the declared. "And you don't love this Colombo, Hongkong, Karachi. Madras, Shang intangible barrier that a moment man. I know you don't. Not even before had made them merely two a little bit. You are mine, Helen. hungry young creatures turning Right now I could kiss you, their search for food into a kitchen don't pull away-I won't do it, but She knew that Bob had discov-happen that you didn't want it to don't say you thought this wouldn't ered something new in her--some-
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It was as though he saw her for the first time, and the vision had He paused and laughed shortly. NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL startled him. Then there flashed "Well, you are the magnet, dear." MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. into his eyes the eternal truth of Helen's hands had grown chill as love. He saw the girl he knew he ice in his grasp. His words fright-
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Per tray her complete, emotional upset. BEANCHES Bandjeri. haps it was the exquisitely fem- Bob's arms offered her a haven. inine line of her creamy throat, It was impossible to stave off her perhaps the effect of her appear-neunting hysteria and ight the ance in an apron had something to temptation to have him hold her do with it.
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struggled out of his arms, though sweet to be resisted. she was never be without a yarn- Eng to return to them.
"Don't expect me to ask your for giveness." Bob said as she stood off from him, 'desperately trying to control her voice for speech. "My love for you is something I will not apologize for."
In spite of the Blood of despair that Helen felt engulfing her, she experienced a thrill of happiness over his declaration. This was no toy lover, to kiss and say "I'm sorry."
"No," she said, "no, I would not want you to. Only..." Her choked atteranew broke and left her help-1 less, with only her tear-filled eyes and unsteady Tips to tell him that she must strike at his happiness.
"What is it?" Bob was ruthless with the rush of premonition that came to him.
Bet.re Helen answered he burst out bitterly: "I didn't get so far as to imagine I could have you, Just wanting you was enough to blind me to reason."
Helen
The instant she lost her battle Bob's arms dipped about her. But he did not kiss her now and she lay passive until the soft, broken soba gave way to easier breathing and the beating of her heart wus less the pounding of a trip-hammer.
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Then she lifted her hands, placed the palms against his cheeks and raised her head to press her lips to his. Rob-needed no words from her to interpret that kiss for him. It sent the message of her love to him more convincingly than any Ayres thing else could have done.
And yet he knew that it was a The bitter-sweet farewell caress. anguish that filled Helen's heart Rowed somehow into his own.
When she drew away from him he did not seek to hold her. The old knowledge that he could not possess her had caught, him in its grip again and he was helpless against the inevitableness of their parting.
"Kees, pou were blind,"
"I love you, I love you, I love eried: "blind as could be, cise you you." The words pounded over and would have seen that I did not want this to happen."
over against Helen's quivering lips but she refused them utterance. Bob's answering laugh was as
Bob would mirthless as a dirge. "So you an easier if she did not say it.
know-it would be ticipated it?" he asked.
"Helen," he pleaded in a rush of un-despair, "you aren't going through in with it? You aren't going to marry
anyone else?"
with
Helen looked at him ashamed honesty deep-seated her unswerving gaze.
"I thought of it," she said sim- ply.
"You say that, and
expect me not to kiss you again?" Bob wag a trifle wild.
"I must, if he still wants me," Helen told him.
"Of course he will want you! But a beast that can't you see what would make him if you tell him you don't love him? How can you think of marrying such a man?"
Helen hesitated, drew in her breath sharply and said: "I expect you never to kiss me again."
Bob too hesitated, weighing her tense sincerity for its true value.mile. "Perhaps
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"I do not obey injunctions as him," she said, "and he may not blindly as love." he threatened. care so much as you think."
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"You know in your heart that he one." Helen replied, fighting to does," Boh retorted. keep her voice level and clear. "I "But I mean to tell him about am engaged to marry... She
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