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The Summons

CHAPTER XXI
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"Not one whom I have ever seen." The little note of melancholy in his voice moved Millie Splay.

She was all kindness in that moment of her triumph.

She turned to Martin Hillyard in commiseration.

"Oh, don't tell me that you are in love with her too! I should be so sorry." "No, I am not," Martin Hillyard hastened to reassure her, "not one bit." The commiseration died on the instant in Millicent Splay.
"Well, really I don't see why you shouldn't be," she said coldly.

"You will go a long way before you find any one to equal her." Her whole attitude demanded of him an explanation of how he dared not to be in love with her darling.
"A very long way," Martin Hillyard agreed humbly.


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