21/32 "Oh, stop, stop! Please stop! Don't you know ?" "Know what ?" he demanded. "Stanford Manning--we are here on our honeymoon." She saw him flinch as though from a heavy blow, and put out his hand to the trunk of a tree near which they stood, to steady himself. He did not speak, but his lips moved as though he repeated her words to himself, over and over again; and he gazed at her with a strange bewildered, doubting look, as though he could not believe his own suffering. "Larry!" Her voice seemed to arouse him and he stood erect as though by a conscious effort of will. |