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THE FALLING OF THE SW'ORD.179give way to that imperative need. Now hewanted safety, and Dallas must pay its price.<strong>The</strong>re was something of the sublime of evil inthis man's sovereign egotism. As he turned hismind away from the path it had been forced totread to the end, he thought, " there is a touchof the whimsical in everything; in this it is thedemi-semi-relationship between Harriet ancl thesepeople.Isuppose the sensitive lady of Poyningsneverheard of her step-father Creswick's niece."A letter for Mr. Routh, a delicate, refinedlookingletter, sealed with the daintiest of monograms,the thick board-like envelope containinga sheet of paper to match, on yvhich only a fewlines are scrawled. But as Stewart Routh readsthem, his sinister dark eyes gleam with pleasureand triumph, ancl his handsome evil face is deeplyflushed." Bearer waits." Mr. Routh writes an answerto the letter, short but ardent, if any onehacl now been there to judge by the expressionof his face while he was writingit. He calls hisclerk, yvho takes the letter to " bearer;" but thatindividual has been profiting by the interval to

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