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"Are you going back in?" asked Abner, aghast.

She nodded swiftly, erasing the traces of her emotion.

"What are you going to say?"

"I don't know."

She was turning away.

"Wait! Wait!" cried Abner in despair. "Tell him no, Adelaide, tell him you love somebody else."

"Oh, I do! I do!" cried the girl with wide eyes. "I've already told him that!"

Abner followed her to the door, gripping her hand.

"T-tell him—"

Good-bye for to-night, Abner; come to see me to-morrow. Go through that door and you'll find Dad; he wants to see you. Now, kiss me good-bye."

He kissed her with a certainty that she was lost to him, and it filled him almost with a physical weakness. She disengaged herself gently from his arms, opened the door, and slipped through it. As she entered the illumination of the ballroom, Abner saw her face light up with a bright practised smile.

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