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Berk-ley! Berk-ley!" How it had crept into her consciousness she could not understand; she lay still, listening, but the tic-toc seemed to fit the syllables of his name; and when, annoyed, she made a half disdainful mental attempt to substitute other syllables, it proved too much of an effort, and back into its sober, swinging rhythm slipped the old clock's tic-toe, in wearisome, meaningless repetition: "Berk-ley!
She raised herself on one elbow; the crack of light under the door was gone; there was no sound, no movement in the house except the measured tick of the hall clock outside, tic-toc! tic-toc! tic-toc! And she had been lying there a long, long while, eyes open, before she realised that the rhythm of the hall clock was but a repetition of a name which did not concern her in any manner: "Berk-ley!
Berk-ley! Berk-ley!" She was awakened by a rapping at her door and her cousin's imperative voice: "I want to talk to you; are you in bed?" She drew the coverlet to her chin and called out: "Come in, Steve!" He came, tremendously excited, clutching the Herald in one hand. "I've had enough of this rebel newspaper!" he said fiercely. "I don't want it in the house again, ever.
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