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WHO IS THE HEIR?

CHAPTER I.

CAN YOU LOVE ME?

"These flowers that to my breast I fold,
Into my very heart have grown—
To thee I drain the cup of gold,

And think the violet eyes thine own."
DENIS FLORENCE M'CARTHY.

GUY LUTTREL was naturally grateful to Harry Mauleverer for his spirited rescue of Lily. As to the young lady herself, it would be rather difficult to describe her feelings. Her position had It was

been rather a humiliating one.

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