Penny Dreadfuls, 1890 · page 79 of 233
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68 sisg THAT GIRL OF JOHNSON’S, great wonder in their depths. At the time he did not understand, but he smiled at her, and the smile was so grave and tender and steady that it seemed to her after- ward when she thought of it that he had spoken. She neither moved nor._spoke; he believed that she did not see him though her eyes were on him till he disap- peared over the edge, the rope making a dull whir through the grass that stifled all thought in her mind but the possibility of danger to him. cS ETE (e(ovaniiel exoye) (ele)