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STORY OF THE GIRL
CHAPTER IV.
STORY OF THE GIRL WHO ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Richard Treadwell sat moodily on a bench, half supporting the limp form of the girl he had just saved from death.
He had caught her just as she threw up her hands with a pitiful, weak cry, ready to spring into the reservoir.
"My dear young woman, don't take on so," he said, vexedly, as the girl leaned against his shoulder, and sobbed in a heart-broken, distracted manner. "You are safe now."
As if that could be consolation to a woman who was seeking death which sought her not.
"Really, I am sorry, you know, but there's
