You have stood by us through thick and thin.

I can not ask you to share any of the dangers which now confront us, perhaps more sinister than any we have yet known." "Don't you want me ?" asked Bruce quietly.
Kathlyn had gone to her room to hide her tears.
"Want you! But no!" The colonel wrung the young man's hand and turned to go back to Kathlyn.
"Wait a moment, Colonel.

Supposing I wanted to go, what then?
Supposing I should say to you what I dare not yet say to your daughter, that I love her better than anything else in all this wide world; that it will be happiness to follow wherever she goes.

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