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"Yes, Jack; and I give you my whole heart as truly as did the
first woman when there was but one man in all the world. That is
MY REVENGE."
This is what Will Munson wrote some weeks later:
"Well, Jack, I've had the yellow fever, and it was the most
fortunate event of my life. I was staying with a charming family,
and they would not permit my removal to a hospital. One of my
bravest and most devoted nurses has consented to become my wife. I
hope you punished that little wretch Eva Van Tyne as she
deserved."
"Confound your fickle soul!" muttered Ackland. "I punished her as
she did not deserve; and I risked more than life in doing so. If
her heart had not been as good as gold and as kind as Heaven she
never would have looked at me again."
Ackland is quite as indifferent to the sex as ever, but Eva has
never complained that he was cold to her.
A CHRISTMAS-EVE SUIT
The Christmas holidays had come, and with them a welcome vacation
for Hedley Marstern. Although as yet a briefless young lawyer, he
had a case in hand which absorbed many of his thoughts--the
conflicting claims of two young women in his native village on the
Hudson.
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