Jaquelina - Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

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you it is," she said, and although he affected indifference her scornful tone had an arrow in it that secretly pierced his heart.

      "What manner of a man might he be whose admiration would be acceptable to you, fair lady?" he inquired, coldly, yet with a certain wistfulness in his tone.

      Jaquelina turned her dark eyes on the masked face of the outlaw, and regarded him steadily as she said, firmly:

      "A man quite your opposite in everything—an honest, honorable, noble man, brave and without reproach."

      "Sans peur et sans reproche—the Ardelle motto," muttered the outlaw beneath his dark mustache. "So, Miss Meredith, you are holding up before me a glass wherein I may see all that I am not?"

      "Yes," she said; then after a minute, in which she gazed at the princely form in unwilling admiration, Jaquelina added, half-pityingly: "All that you might have been!"

      "Yes, all that I might have been," he said, in a saddened and softened voice. "Are you a student of Whittier, Miss Meredith? Do you believe with him that

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