On the contrary, it is to be so neglected as to produce a fatal termination.'" The girl had seated herself at the typewriter and rapidly clicked out the words in French--words that seemed ominous enough, and yet the true meaning of which she never dreamed.

She was thinking only of her father's misplaced friendship in James Flockart.

If she dared to tell him the naked truth! Oh, if her poor, blind, afflicted father could only see!.