If you will
not read it, please follow my hand as I read, and see for yourself how
far I have misused your trust."
"I never doubted your good faith, Eunane"--But she had begun to read,
pointing with her finger as she went on. At one sentence hand and
voice wavered a little without apparent reason. "I shall," wrote her
school-friend, some half year her junior, "make my appearance at the
next inspection. I wish the Campta, had left you here till now; we
might perhaps have contrived to pass into the same household."
"A very innocent wish, and very natural," I said, in answer to the
look, half inquiring, half shy, with which Eunane watched the effect
of her words. I could not now use the precaution in her case, which it
had somehow seemed natural to adopt with Eive, of marking the paper
returned for erasure. On her part, Eunane thrust into my hand the
whole bundle as they were, and I was forced myself to erase, by an
electro-chemical process which leaves no trace of writing, the words
of that selected. The absence of any mark on the second paper served
sufficiently to distinguish the two when, of course without stating
from whom I received them, I placed, them in Davilo's hands.
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