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154 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE “May be you are right. Let me leave you now, please; I will see vou to-morrow.” The two men separated for the night, but not to sleep. It was late when Guerry entered, but for some hours after Stannard heard him pacing up and down his room. “Poor fellow,” he thought. “I sympathize with him fully. I do not wonder that he was excited. I could cry like a child over her sorrows, just now; and he must find them harder to bear.” Meantime, Cecy sat upon her pallet, deep in thought. “To-morrow will be a happy day with me if he comes. I have so much to say to him.” The grating of the key in the lock interrupted her reverie, and Mrs. Harris came in with a candle. She held outa card to Cecy; with a joyful bound she sprang forward to take it, and read there the name of her lover. A few words were written to tell her that he should come to her in the morning, and telling her to keep her spirits un—words that brought comfort and cheer to Cecy’s heart. “Heis all Ihave in the world to love me,” she said, sadly, as she went back to her little bed. “J can sleep now, with this hope for to-morrow.” And, placing the card beneath her pillow, she did sleep as calmly as if in her own luxurious chamber at Echaconnee. Stannard found the room empty when he went to see Guerry on the following morning. For the pur- pose of avoiding him Alfred had started early, and me some hours walked in the country beyond the own. Cecy had long waited for him when she heard his step upon the stair. He had gone there hoping to get relief from all the difficulties that then sur- rounded him. “She loves me to distraction,” he flattered him- self, “and will do whatever I say. With her au- thority to act for the estate, I can raise the money I need. She will not refuse me.” | -Not a doubt entered his mind that Cecy would now give him entire control of her property, and he comicbooks