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The Craze of Christina. 205 of you to say such a thing even in joke; it doesn’t look as if you loved me very much.”’ ‘Perhaps I don’t,”’ said Chris, looking at him with her inscrutable smile. He took her into his arms and kissed her passionately. “You are a witch, and I adore you!”’ he said, ‘“‘and if only you loved me half as much as I love you——”’ , : ‘IT don’t know yet hew much you do love me, Mark.” “‘I shall hope to prove to you how much.”’ “IT hope you will. By the way, is that all your friend Mr. Scrubb says?”’ Clifford laughed. ‘‘No, oddly enough, he gives me the same advice that you do!”’ ‘“‘What? to go to Australia and marry Miss Greville!’’ “Yes, exactly that,’’ and they both laughed very much. ‘“‘There is another very curious thing he tells me,’ went on Clifford presently —‘‘it is really a remarkable coincidence—this Greville girl, whom I suppose, as her father is dead, [ must now look upon as my adversary and enemy, happens by the most extraordinary chance to have the same Christian name as yours.” ‘*‘As mine?’ faltered Chris, and for the first time she was nonplussed, and the color rushed Comichooksnco