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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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like to have the day fixed."

Her heart gave a great thump of dismay.

"Do you really mean to hunt me down then and--and marry me against my
will?" she said, almost panting out the words.

Caryl turned his eyes back to the mare.

"I mean to marry you--yes," he said. "I think you forget that you
accepted me of your own accord."

"I was mad!" she broke in passionately.

"People in love are never wholly sane," he remarked cynically.

"I was never in love with you!" she cried. "Never, never!"

He raised his eyebrows.

"Nevertheless you will marry me," he said.

"Why?" she gasped back furiously. "Why should I marry you? You know I
hate you, and you--you--surely you must hate me?"

"No," he said with extreme deliberation, "strange as it may seem, I
don't."

Something in the words quelled her anger. Abruptly she abandoned the
struggle and fell silent, her face averted.
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