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cannot endure it."
She stopped. She hesitated.
"You do not know all," she said abruptly, and for an instant her lips
had a bitter smile. "I have been asked to leave you."
"Leave me!"
She made no answer save an affirmative movement of the head.
Denton stood up sharply. They stared at one another through a long
silence.
Suddenly she turned herself about, and flung face downward upon their
canvas bed. She did not sob, she made no sound. She lay still upon her
face. After a vast, distressful void her shoulders heaved and she began
to weep silently.
"Elizabeth!" he whispered--"Elizabeth!"
Very softly he sat down beside her, bent down, put his arm across her in
a doubtful caress, seeking vainly for some clue to this intolerable
situation.
"
Elizabeth," he whispered in her ear.
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