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FOR long after she had seen Nora safe in bed, and asleep from sheer exhaustion, Lyle lay awake herself in the adjoining room.
The tragedies of life were facing her rapidly now. Only a few months and the glad hopeful serenity had vanished. She had faced crime, sorrow, loss, love, and now stood as a rival in the eyes of the friend she loved so dearly. It was a bitter truth. But she had heard it spoken, and would have to bear its bitterness now, for all the time to come.