It was a handsome, but seriously perplexed, face which bent over the letters, and more than once the shapely hand was raised to the puckered forehead and the fingers thrust impatiently through the golden brown hair, setting it on end and causing its owner to look more distracted than ever.

Poor, wee lassie, you little realize What a problem you are to me. Would to God the one best qualified to solve it could have been spared to you, and the handsome head fell forward upon the hands, as tears of bitter anguish flooded the brown eyes.

Can anything be more pathetic than a strong man's tears? And Clayton Reeve's were wrung from an almost despairing heart.

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