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The Right of Way
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CHAPTER V
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She took it with a curious contracted look and put it on the finger again, then pulled off the other glove quietly.

"Of course one uses the pen with the right hand," she said calmly.
"Involuntary act of memory," he rejoined slowly, as she took the pen in her hand.

"You had spoken of a wedding, this was a wedding-gift, and--that's right, sign there!" There was a brief pause, in which she appeared to hesitate, and then she wrote her name in a large firm hand, and, throwing down the pen, caught up her gloves, and began to pull them on viciously.
"Thanks.

It is very kind of you," he said.

He put the document in the tin box, and took out another, as without a word, but with a grave face in which scorn and trouble were mingled, she now turned towards the door.
"Can you spare a minute longer ?" he said, and advanced towards her, holding the new document in his hand.


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