And she said 0 Dick i want
you so, out loud bekors she didn't no I was there. And i no she
was crying bekors i saw the tiers. And this is true on my onner so
help me sam.
Sined,
Yore true frend and Knight,
REGINALD AUGUSTUS.
A revulsion of feeling swept over me as I read. Ah! if only I could
believe she had said such words - my beautiful, proud Lisbeth.
Alas! dear Imp, how was it possible to believe you? And because I
knew it could not possibly be true, and because I would have given
my life to know that it was true, I began to read the note all over
again.
Suddenly I started and looked round; surely that was a sob! But the
moon's level rays served only to show the utter loneliness about me.
It was imagination, of course, and yet it had sounded very real.
And she said, "0 Dick, I want you so!"
The river lapped softly against the bank, and somewhere above my head
the leaves rustled dismally.
"Dear little Imp, if it were only true!"
Once again the sound came to me, low and restrained, but a sob
unmistakably.
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