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THE CZIMBERS ized for the first time that my old friend did love me, love me with an ideal devotion the noblest woman in the world might be proud of! I didn't tell him then I loved him, but now I take this chance, I take it GLADLY before you !-forced by you! I tell him now, what perhaps he has already guessed, I love him with all my heart - I love him I I LOVE HIM! STERLING. Damn you both! then it's the end of meI [He pulls out a pistol and tries to put it !o his temple. BLANCHE. [Cries out.] Ned! WARDEN. [Seizes STERLING, catches his arm, and wrenches the pistol from him.] So that's what you planned to do, is it - make a wretched scene like that [It begins to snow more heavily. 6('7,