Ned smiled, waved his hand and from the door firmly answered:
"As you like—from to-day—foes——"
He closed the door and with swift step turned his face toward the house of Senator Winter.
[CHAPTER VII]
[LOVE AND DUTY]
The pretty Irish maid nodded and smiled with such a sympathetic look as she ushered Ned into the cosy back parlor, he wondered if it meant anything. Could she have guessed Betty's secret? She might give him a hint that would lift the fear from his heart.
He smiled back into her laughing eyes and began awkwardly:
"Oh, I say, Peggy——"
She dropped a pretty courtesy: