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     Kilmeny of the Orchard 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     see her this minute, as plain as plain, just 
     
     as she was that night, blushing and turn- 
     
     ing pale by turns, and looking at Ronald 
     
     with her eyes of love. If ever a girl loved 
     
     a man with all her heart Margaret Gordon 
     
     did. It almost made me feel frightened. 
     
     She gave him the worship it isn’t right to 
     
     give anybody but God, Master, and I 
     
     think that is always punished. 
     
    

    
     “ They went to live at Radnor and for 
     
     a little while everything went well. Mar- 
     
     garet had a nice house, and was gay and 
     
     happy. She dressed beautiful and enter- 
     
     tained a good deal. Then—well, Ronald 
     
     Fraser’s first wife turned up looking for 
     
     him! She wasn’t dead after all. 
     
    

    
     “ Oh, there was terrible scandal, Mas- 
     
     ter. The talk and gossip was something 
     
     dreadful. Every one you met had a dif- 
     
     ferent story, and it was hard to get at the 
     
     truth. Some said Ronald Fraser had 
     
     known all the time that his wife wasn’t 
     
     dead, and had deceived Margaret. But I 
     
     don’t think he did. He swore he didn’t. 
     
    

    
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