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"Has anything gone wrong? " There was so much of interest and sympathy in her tone, as Joe put the simple question, that John turned and looked into her face. The magic of moonlight softens the hardest features, makes interest look like friendship, and friendship like love; but it can harden too at times, and make a human face look like carved stone.
"No, there is nothing wrong," John answered presently; "what made you think so?"