CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.)

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CHAPTER Vl.— (Continued.)

What a kies that was to both. Herbert's blood seemed to be set on fire by it ; he trembled like a leaf. The girl was even more affected. She started back in affright, her face glowing with color. "You are & god," she said at last; "you have set my heart and brain on fire. It was riot a mortal kiss. My father's kisses never have this effect. Oh, I will never ki3B you again ; it is so sweet, yet bo terrible." Harry turned aside, a gleam of envy and malico on his face. How was it that although he thought himself handsomer and more attractive than Herbert, he was always last in the race in the favor of man or woman. Even at that early moment, when he had esoaped a dreadful death, though he had but seen this girl for a few minutes, her beautiful form and virgin innocence had raised in him the unholy fires which he had permitted from early youth to burn in his heart. How little did the unsophisticated island girl dream of the furious passions she had already raised. Herbert was utterly staggered. He knrw not what to think ; he felt himself a criminal for allowing the thought of another woman but his betrothed bride to enter into his mind. And yet he could not resist the extraordinary power of thia beautiful vision. When he looked at her he felt troubled : there was something reminiscent about her which he 1 not comprehend; something that recalled other faces and other scenes. At this moment the girl turntd her face towards the house, and then uttered a gl.td cry. " Here comes my father," Bhe Baid.