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? ? ? ? And then the mother turned toward Meriem, an expression of pitying sorrow erasing the happiness from her eyes.

? ? ? ? "My little girl," she said, "in the midst of our happiness a great sorrow awaits you--Mr. Baynes did not survive his wound."

? ? ? ? The expression of sorrow in Meriem's eyes expressed only what she sincerely felt; but it was not the sorrow of a woman bereft of her best beloved.

? ? ? ? "I am sorry," she said, quite simply. "He would have done me a great wrong; but he amply atoned before he died. Once I thought that I loved him. At first it was only fascination for a type that was new to me--then it was respect for a brave man who had the moral courage to admit a sin and the physical courage to face death to right the wrong he had committed. But it was not love. I did not know what love was until I knew that Korak lived," and she turned toward The Killer with a smile.

? ? ? ? Lady Greystoke looked quickly up into the eyes of her son-- the son who one day would be Lord Greystoke.


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