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Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process

CHAPTER VI
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He was far, indeed, from formally consenting to entertain such a hope.

He professed to himself that he had no doubt that she was married and lost to him for ever.

Had anything happened to break off the match, Laura would certainly have lost no time in telling him such good news.

It was childishness to fancy aught else.

But no effort of the reason can quite close the windows of the heart against hope, and, like a furtive ray of sunshine finding its way through a closed shutter, the thought that, after all, she might be free surreptitiously illumined the dark place in which he sat.
When the train stopped at Newville he slipped through the crowd at the station with the briefest possible greetings to the acquaintances he saw, and set out to gain his father's house by a back street.
On the way he met Harry Tuttle, and could not avoid stopping to exchange a few words with him..


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