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Still Roddick watched him. He could not break through the miserable,
obstinate silence that hid his sympathy. Reason came back to Griff's
face, and firmness to his voice.
"There are two pictures in my studio at Gorsthwaite. I seem to care so
little for that sort of thing now, but I know they are good. Will you
look after them, Roddick, old man? Send them out into the world; they
are the best work I ever did--and Kate lives in one of them."
Janet had forgotten Griff while teaching herself to realize the glad
news he had brought them. In the utter selfishness of her love, in the
sudden lifting of a burden she had borne too long, she surrendered
herself wholly to delight. Her joy grew intolerable; she had to cry
aloud.
"Leo, Leo, you are mine, mine altogether!" she said, in a voice between
laughter and tears.
But Roddick, thinking of his true friend in need, was silent. He turned
his back on them, and leaned his forehead on the mantelshelf, and
wondered what would be the end of it for Lomax.
And Griff, meanwhile, passed quietly out into the stillness of the moor.
THE END.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.
End of Project Gutenberg's A Man of the Moors, by Halliwell Sutcliffe
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