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110 A Fair Fraud from under a velvet tray she drew forth a cherished memento—a faded gardenia that had once been a button-hole flower. Sadly and tenderly she pressed it once or twice to her lips, then dropped it into the red ashes of the now dying fire. The flame flickered up quickly and the small shrivelled object was soon consumed. ‘So ends the sweetest dream of my life!’ murmured Hester half aloud. ‘There shall be no more illusions for me any more!’ And after that she extinguished the light and went to bed. GOMMGIOO CS), (GO) uu