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“Tt may be. Why don’t you go away and
leave me?”

“JT am going,” he replied, wildly. “I will
have no more to do with you. Formerly I
pitied you, but— ”

He could not have used a word more calcu-
lated to rouse the Egyptian’s ire, and she walked
away with her head erect. Only once did she
look back, and it was to say:

“This is prudence — now.”