She leaned over the rail.

She could not see the veranda for the masses of creeper, but the voices were now quite plain in the stillness.

Ruth's voice gay and incessant.

Presently a man's voice _his_--and laughing! Then his voice speaking--then the two voices mingled--both talking at once, so eager were they! Her lover--and Ruth was stealing him from her! Oh, the baseness, the treachery! And her aunt was helping!.

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