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DAPHNE

come and trouble my mind and take away my peace? Who are you? What are you?"

"If you want a human name for me"—he answered.

She raised her hand swiftly to stop him. "No, don't!" she said. "I do not want to know. Don't tell me anything, for the mystery is part of the beauty of you."

A shaft of golden sunlight pierced the ilex shade and smote her forehead as she stood there.

"Apollo, the sun god," she said, smiling, as she turned and left him alone.

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