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-a word. When he reached the street, how-
ever, the fresh air seemed to recall him to
his senses, and he asked Hal what he meant’
by dragging him off in that fashion, when
he was having a good time. | |

‘* Don’t talk so, Clare!” said Hal sadly.
“6 ‘Those boys had a plot against you and |
you were too blind to see it, that’s all.
Still, if you had. kept your promise, you
- might have escaped.” |
“‘T don’t see how you knew where I
was,” said Clare. sullenly. “ You must
have been watching me.” |

, Then Hal told all about the conversation

that he had overheard, and how much it had
worried him.

“T hurried home as soon as I could,”’ said

Hal, “to tell you about, it; but when I

found that you had not been there, and saw