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after the ceremony, he renounced all claim to his father’s money
preferring his choice and hard work. Then came two years of im
measurable joy and peace in the little hpmi.sTolfcwed by the dark
R g B i when t h ^ t t l e baby girl wig palled h o irf^ Gerald had bpeii’so
kind .and-loving during thoSS’trying ho& ifjand H
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I ^ J o p l d he have done iET. A thief.” The" word seemed, to sea's
r topgue as she S^5ke,it; all was-'so plain,-so.vivid, k«That scene''
in the front hall not over seven months ago, when Mr. White stood
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I X itin v ,nT ^IS -Other hand’ an “ ^signed ■ ■ ■ i i '- ^ r a l d ’s'hand-
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SCr " e W8S bUrned forever ¡n her memory and now
tonight she was b r f , living g a U over.again. 'She could s e e 'U a M
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| his. e i p i e'y e r:'M 7 th e great
B be^ ’^ f^ '? eat stand ®nt cm his brow.
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mistake’ Gerald,” she hafrcrieil.- -H
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u ? ° J 7 ; r rtrude’ but f i l B « he’s ^ b e d 'i'.h e 'f e il into a
chair and hid,h,|iaei#in his hands. “I h a d ' t d ^ ' t h e last payment
on the house and was not able to do it. I intended to put the money I
the v o Z h T b t "
I dreW my m° nth’S SHlary and then des‘4
the voucher, put, n o ^ i t ’^ o o laft k i’y
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Sbe u m b e r e d with gratitude how kind Mr. White was Not
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,S m the morning, Gerald,” and he was gone, stopping at
the door long enough to say good-night to Gertrude and tell her not
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there’.sat all- that she held i f e ^ i n this-world'
th‘4 iShe, b a t h e d a prayer’ Qf thanks to'?'
le MarjOry had gOne where “ taint of
this could touplji her; name, j|
Then followed the angry separation and her search for work un- -
in d n" aSSU"led name and a valiant but losing fight against memory,
shut it all T
m tryin& t o 'draw a «irtain over the past and
shut it all H M H | this noterfrpm Gerald, ■ True it is under ¿a
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d B B S S B B 9 R H 'WaS H H I starting in all over under
an Usurped name
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“Is this not.hell? W hat Is meant by the word fforgive?:I
• i / M 11? hlayiI1£ ’as hard a struggle'-afehe and all alone ?’..'<For-
give.. Had she ever tried to forgive? And had he not been trying