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She must hold
him close.
She used every art she knew. She deliberately inflamed him. And
the vicious circle closed in about him, Natalie and Marion and Anna
Klein. And to offset them, only Delight Haverford, at evening
prayer in Saint Luke's, and voicing a tiny petition for him, that
he might walk straight, that he might find peace, even if that peace
should be war.


CHAPTER XXIX
Herman Klein, watch between forefinger and thumb, climbed heavily
to Anna's room. She heard him pause outside the door, and her
heart almost stopped beating. She had been asleep, and rousing
at his step, she had felt under the pillow for her watch to see
the time. It was not there.
She remembered then; she had left it below, on the table. And he
was standing outside her door. She heard him scratching a match,
striking it against the panel of her door. For so long as it would
take the match to burn out, she heard him there, breathing heavily.
Then the knob turned.
She leaped out of the bed in a panic of fear.


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