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John's eyes were never quite as she knew them when he was looking at Olive; and Robert Cramier's what a queer, drugged look they had! As for that other poor young fellow she had never forgotten his face when they came on him in the Park!
You come between us at your peril." Lennan kept silence for a moment, then he said quietly: "Can one come between two people who have ceased to have anything in common?" The veins in Cramier's forehead were swollen, his face and neck had grown crimson. And Lennan thought with strange elation: Now he's going to hit me!
That one suave word had an inimitable insolence. He could hardly see his hand touching Cramier's heavy fist. Then he realized that she was standing so that their faces when they must say good-bye could not be seen. Her eyes were smiling, yet imploring; her lips shaped the word: "To-morrow!" And squeezing her hand desperately, he got away.
Into this creature he would put the spirit of possession that held her from him. And while his fingers forced the clay, he felt as if he had Cramier's neck within his grip. Yet, now that he had resolved to take her if he could, he had not quite the same hatred.
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