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36. BOB YOUNGER'S FATE, CHAPTER. VI. THE QUEEN AND THEO. Theo Howard sat in his room wrapped in the thoughts that crowded upon him. | “The die is cast,’’ he meditated. “‘What Il am about to do probably never can be undone, but at least I go into the future and out into the world with my eyes open. Nevertheless, I do not feel easy or even safe in taking this step. Perhaps this may be owing to the fact that the happiness of being once more with Myra will be necessarily postponed, though I hope, as Julian thinks also, that we shall not be absent more than a month. Then good-bye to poverty, and welcome to fortune and all the en- joyment it will bring. One thing, however, affords me more satisfaction than all the wealth in the world could possibly create, and that is the fact of my breaking off with Miss Trainer. For once | have disregarded Stark’s advice, and followed the promptings of my conscience. I] have not seen her since that night, and I hope that my eyes will never rest upon her fatal likeness again.’’ At that moment a ring was heard at the door, and before Theo could bid the visitor enter, a veiled woman stepped across the threshold any paused be- fore him. Something in the eracstal form seemed very famil- iar, and the young man was not greatly surprised when the lineaments of the Queen were Ria Ne by the casting aside of the veil. There stood Irene Trainer, a flush in fae perfect face and a look of reproach in her eye. ; Eom (E ,00 ES EO