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She stared around her, trying to decide
whether she should follow her impulse to hide, when her father entered the
room.
"Daddy," she cried, "if you want to be nice to me, go away a little while.
Go somewhere a few minutes and stay until I call you."
"Leslie, what's the matter?" he asked.
"I've been talking to Douglas, and Daddy, he's coming like a charging
Highland trooper. Daddy, I heard him drop the receiver and start. Please,
please go away a minute. Even the dearest father in the world can't do
anything now! We must settle this ourselves."
"I'm not to be allowed a word?" he protested.
"Daddy, you've had two years! If you know anything to say against Douglas
and haven't said it in all that time, why should you begin now? You
couldn't help knowing! Daddy, do go! There he is! I hear him!"
Mr. Winton took his daughter in his arms, kissed her tenderly, and left
the room. A second later Douglas Bruce entered. Rushing to Leslie he
caught her to his breast roughly, while with a strong hand he pressed her
ear against his heart.


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