Inza, it was something awful!"
"It was because you love Frank!"
"And you love Frank! You have confessed as much."
"Perhaps I do. I hardly know myself. But you have shown to-day that you
are much more worthy of him than I am. Don't worry about any of those
troubles any more."
She straightened up, with the look of a renouncing queen, while her dark
eyes shone like stars.
"Elsie, I will go away from here if it is necessary. I will not disturb
you and Frank."
"I take back all I said the other day!" Elsie quivered. "I retract every
word. They were selfish, jealous, hateful words. They led me to
murderous thoughts--for those thoughts about you to-day were really
murderous. You shall not go away! Not unless I go away, too!"
"Then we can be friends, dear!" said Inza, laying a hand softly on the
golden head. "That is what we will try to be, if you will, in spite of
everything."
"Yes," Elsie assented, "though I am not worthy to be your friend."
"Then we will be friends, dear!"
"We are friends!" Elsie exclaimed impulsively, drawing the hand down and
kissing it.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GUN CLUB.
"Baw Jawve, it would be sport if a fellah could draw on a grouse on a
Scotch moor, don't you 'now! It would be something great to knock such a
bird into the heather.
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