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paper to the girl. Hereford, not expecting this, and too late to prevent it, tried to forbid her, as she started to read.
Her eyes glanced down the page and she disregarded him.
Lorine's hand, as she read, trembled tensely with the paper it held. She inclined her head so that her hat shaded and hid her face from him. She stood trembling and silent an instant, when she had finished, then suddenly she threw the paper on the table and raised her head. Her tense trembling was gone, her eyes blazed with indignation.
"So you did not take it!" She was pale now with what seemed contempt for him. "You—you had nothing to do with it! You—you— It has been all an assumption on my part that you risked anything to prevent me!"
