ly attempt at conversation.

For a half hour--it might have been much more or much less--they
walked in this way, thrilling with the new magnetism that at once
attracted and estranged them with an extraordinary sense of strangeness
in familiarity. At length they paused under the little porch of Miss
Rood's cottage, where he commonly bade her good-evening after their
walks. The timidity and vague alarms that had paralyzed her while
they were walking disappeared as he was about to leave her, and she
involuntarily returned his unusual pressure of her hand.

A long time after, behold her still encircled in his arms, not blushing,
but pale and her eyes full of a soft, astonished glow! "Oh, Robert!" was
all she had said after one first little gasp.

They never met George or Mabel again. Mrs. Morgan learned subsequently
that two young people from the city answering their description had been
guests at the opposite house, and had left Plainfield the morning after
the events hereinbefore set forth, and drew her conclusions accordingly.
But her husband preferred to cherish the secret belief that his theory
that memories might become visible had proved true in one instance at
least.

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