oundrel in the
world instead of the dearest lover, the patientest! Ah, can you forgive
me?"

"Forgive you, Nora?" He was numb.

"I am a miserable wretch! I doubted you, I! When all I had to do was to
recall the way people misrepresented things I had done! I sent back your
letters ... and read and reread the old blue ones. Don't you remember how
you used to write them on blue paper? ... Flora told me everything. It was
only because she hated me, not that she cared anything about you. She told
me that night at the ball. I believe the duke forced her to do it. She was
at the bottom of the abduction. When you kissed me ... didn't you know
that I kissed you back? Edward, I am a miserable wretch, but I shall
follow you wherever you go, and I haven't even a vanity-box in my
hand-bag!" There were tears in her eyes. "Say that I am a wretch!"

He drew her up beside him. His arms closed around her so hungrily, so
strongly, that she gasped a little. He looked into her eyes; his glance
traveled here and there over her face, searching for the familiar dimple
at one corner of her mouth.

"Nora!" he whispered.

"Kiss me!"

And then the train came to a stand, jerkily. They fell back against the
cushions.

"Lecco!" cried the guard through the window.

They laughed like children.

"I bribed him," she said gaily. "And now...."

"Yes, and now?" eagerly, if still bewilderedly.

"Let's go back!"

THE END

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