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across the sky, she thought it an ex­

cuse for a further delay in speaking the

words that had been all the evening-
on her lips. For she had at length re­

solved that she would bear this life of

deceit no longer.
From time to time she glanced at

Mrs. Moran, her eyes filled with wistful

love, and her heart with a dread of the

lonesome, loveless life at Mrs. Bagiev s.

A s for the Doctor, poor Peggy dared
not look at him at all. What would

he say* she wondered, when he knew

how he had been deceived ? She had
no doubt that he would instantly send

her out of the house, and she would

have to go home with the thunder

crashing over her head and the light­
ning blinding her eyes. Then came the

thought that perhaps Mrs Bagley would

be too angry with her to take her back