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Remember, and do
not answer hastily," and her gaze into his face was searching.
Although quiet and perfectly self-controlled, the rich color
mounted to her very brow.
"Well, Helen," he asked wonderingly.
"Imagine it possible," she continued with the same earnest gaze,
"that you were a woman who has loved as I have loved, and lost as
I have. The circumstances are all known, and you have only to
recall them. If a man had loved you as you have loved me--"
"But, Helen, can you not believe in a love so strong that it does
not ask--"
By a gesture she checked him and repeated, "But if a man had loved
you as you have loved me--remember now, on your honor--would you
permit him to love with no better reward than the consciousness of
being a solace, a help, a sort of buffer between you and the ills
of life?"
"But, Helen, I am more than that: I am your friend."
"Indeed you are, the best a woman ever had, or I could not speak
as I am doing. Yet what I say is true. From the first it has been
your sleepless aim to stand between me and trouble.


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