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Janice was too young and inexperienced to know that a secret is of all things the most to be avoided, and though her little hand, in her woman's intuition that all was not right, tried feebly to free itself, she none the less answered eagerly if half-doubtfully, "Yes." "I am sent here under an assumed name by His Majesty.
"I don't see that there is anything else for me to do," I said, half-doubtfully; and as he was going I asked him about the question of bail. "I have waived the preliminary examination for you merely to save you the humiliation of appearing in a justice's court in Glendale," was the evasive reply. "But without the examination I shan't have a chance to offer bail, shall I?"
"Something must have delayed him," she thought uneasily. "He couldn't miss me even in a crowd, because he is so careful. I hope he got the telegram." She had turned to compare her wrist-watch with the station clock when a voice at her back said half-doubtfully, "Betty?"
Again his whole face laughed, as, nimbly, he brought his legs from the water and stood beside her. "Birbante, Signorina?" "Yes. Are you from Naples?" "I come from Mergellina, Signorina." Vere looked at him half-doubtfully, but still with innocent admiration. There was something perfectly fearless and capable about him that attracted her. He rowed in to shore. "How old are you?" she asked.
While she yet looked half-doubtfully at it, she was surrounded, congratulated, and stunned with a sadden clamor of voices; and then, through it all, she heard the well-remembered voice of Count L'Estrange, saying: "My lords and ladies, time is on the wing, and the sun is already half an hour high!
"Will you ever forgive me?" asked Dino, looking half-sadly, half-doubtfully, into his face. "I am not sure that you ever will. I have betrayed you. I have said that you were alive." Brian's face first turned red, then deathly pale. He withdrew his hand from Dino's grasp, and took a backward step. "You!" he said, in a stifled voice. "You! whom I thought to be my friend!"
And now that it is all over, I can see that they were only shoving me into the breach to save themselves." He nodded, half-doubtfully, I thought; and then: "You're goin' to try again somewheres else?"
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