A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. " "Rot! Mac, what do you suppose the natives used to call her? The Dawn Pearl!" McClintock wagged his Scotch head negatively. “Then there was a motor accident only an hour or so after this ceremony, and Hill was reported to be killed. But his treasured dream lay shattered at his feet. “I do not wish to use this. ’ Melusine shrugged, and crossed to the plain door beside which hung a bell. ’ ‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. If he adhered to this policy—to keep away from her inconspicuously—she would forget the name by night, and to-morrow even the bearer of it would sink below the level of recollection. The one fault, indeed, of this school of fiction for him was that it had rather a light way with parental rights.
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