She used again her large ease. "That won't help you if you're loyal."

"Loyal?" he wondered.

"To the real truth. To your genius."

"Oh I'll take care of my genius!"

"You will," she presently returned, "if you remember well this: that if

you do rejoin me you engage to me to stay."

"Very good--I shall remember it well."

"Good-bye then," said Aurora Coyne.

She saw him to the door, where he paused for a last light. "Does that

mean you hold you're safe?"

"It means that I hold you are," she answered as she turned away.

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