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AMENDS

than the dates, brighter than the blood it had cost.

"Oh!" cried Laura, her eyes wide and frightened. She had stepped back as if from a cockatrice. "Look, Owen! What.…"

He stooped, caught it up, and held his closed hand over the water that plashed below.

"Unless you hear me out now," he threatened, "I'll throw it in."


THE END