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Show - 129-A - give me. • I love you so.' Her head fell limply on Dirk's shoulder. He cradled her in his arms and bent his head and gently kissed her on the lips. Until my time on this earth is over I shall never, never forget the look on his face. The utter disbelief that she was dead. For what seemed to me an interminable time, he held her in his arms. Then he turned to me and said in an agonized voice. 'Go. and get Claudine's parents. She is beyond anyone's help now. Chang Lin you stay here with me.' "All I could think of was to get away and secure help. In some tortured way !•thought that there still might be a chance to save Claudine. I ran down the hill groping amongst the vegetables. When I reached the bridge, it was so dark I missed it and fell into the water. It was a miracle that I did not drown. In my hysteria I had lost the flashlight. Somehow I reached the carriage house and burst into the bedroom where Tom was sleeping. He still says that I looked like some apparition and frightened him to death. "Needless to .say, my torture was not over yet. When we awakend the Gavens and told them, I believe that my suffering began anew. To see these two people struggling to make their way down to the gardens in the dark, crying and stumbling at the same time,was heartbreaking. Claudine lay cold and still, with Dirk's coat over her and in death she looked like an angel. Her pale golden hair, that I had so carefully arranged that very evening fell in a profusion of curls over her shoulders and breast. Except for the ugly gash where the blood was starting to dry, she lookedlike a sleeping beauty waiting for her true love to awaken her with a kiss. "Dirk was no where to be seen. He had disappeared. Chang Lin looked at us enigmatically and would only say that he had left. When questioned, he said that he knew not where he was. The car was gone also. "When the police arrived it was almost daylight. They found the gun |