"
"She has not suffered more than my friend, or than I would if--"
"You indeed! The idea of your suffering from any such cause! I
half believe you came here with the deliberate purpose of avenging
your friend, and that you are keeping for his inspection a diary
in which the poor girl's humiliation to-day will form the hateful
climax."
They did not dream that the one most interested was near. Miss Van
Tyne had felt too faint and sorely wounded to go further without
rest. Believing that the rocks would hide her from those whose
eyes she would most wish to shun, she had thrown herself down
beyond the angle and was shedding the bitterest tears that she had
ever known. Suddenly she heard Mrs. Alston's words but a short
distance away, and was so overcome by their import that she
hesitated what to do. She would not meet them again for the world,
but felt so weak that she doubted whether she could drag herself
away without being discovered, especially as the beach trended off
to the left so sharply a little further on that they might
discover her.
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