The shadow you speak of may lie on your heart, dear wife, for these men are of your own blood, but it need never invade the hearthstone beside which I ask you to sit.
The world will never know, whether you come with me or not, that Luttra Blake was ever Luttra Schoenmaker.

Will you not then give me the happiness of striving to make such amends for the past, that you too, will forget you ever bore any other name than the one you now honor so truly ?" "O do not," she began but paused with a sudden control of her emotion that lifted her into an atmosphere almost holy in its significance.

"Mr.
Blake," said she, "I am a woman and therefore weak to the voice of love pleading in my ear.

But in one thing I am strong, and that is in my sense of what is due to the man I have sworn to honor.

Eleven months ago I left you because your pleasure and my own dignity demanded it; to-day I put by all the joy and exaltation you offer, because your position as a gentleman, and your happiness as a man equally requires it." "My happiness as a man!" he broke in.