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216 The Craze of Christina. CHAPTER XVIII. Arter that they walked back to the hotel in absolute silence. Chris felt that she had better not say any more for the time, and Mark was hurt beyond words by her last remark. It wanted only that, that she should doubt the sincerity of his love! Surely soe could not be so cruel as to mean it, knowing as she did that he had already thrown away a small fortune in order to stay abroad and be a help to her in her recent bereavement. His heart was hot and angry against her, but it pained him sorely to find it so, because to be wrath with those we love is the very hardest thing in the world to endure. When they got inside the house he could bear it no longer, but followed her upstairs to the little private sitting-room. Luckily, Ella was not inthe room. Clifford closed the door be- hind him. Chris looked round somewhat coldly and elevated her eyebrows as though in surprise at his action. He did not usually invade their tiny salon uninvited, comicbooks.ce