But if his word can be
depended upon, your happiness to a very large extent does."
She bowed. "I have no doubt you can safely repose confidence in
whatever he may have told you regarding me."
"You indorse, then, the claims he advances?"
"You are very insistent; yet I know of no good reason why I should not
answer. Without at all knowing the nature of those claims to which you
refer, I have no hesitancy in saying that I possess such complete
confidence in Bob Hampton as to reply unreservedly yes. But really,
Lieutenant Brant, I should prefer talking upon some other topic. It is
evident that you two gentlemen are not friendly, yet there is no reason
why any misunderstanding between you should interfere with our
friendship, is there?"
She asked this question with such perfect innocence that Brant believed
she failed to comprehend Hampton's claims.
"I have been informed that it must," he explained. "I have been told
that I was no longer to force my attentions upon Miss Gillis."
"By Bob Hampton?"
"Yes. Those were, I believe, his exact words. Can you wonder that I
hardly know how I stand in your sight?"
"I do not at all understand," she faltered.
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