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Franklin Kane

CHAPTER XV
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I don't know that I find them pacifying.' His eyes came back to her and he considered her again for a moment before he said, smiling gently, 'I've been crying too.' In the little pause that followed this announcement they continued to look at each other, and it was not so much that their eyes sounded the other's eyes as that they deepened for each other and, without effort or surprise, granted to each other the quiet avowal of complete sincerity.
'I'm very sorry that you are unhappy, too,' said Helen.

She noticed now that his eyes were jaded and that all his clear, terse little face was softened and relaxed.
'Yes, I'm unhappy,' said Franklin.

'It's queer, isn't it, that we should find each other like this.

I'm glad I've found you: two unhappy people are better together, I think, than alone.

It eases things a little, don't you think so ?' 'Perhaps it does,' said Helen.


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