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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ' Celia, who is that young man ? You wrote down his name as?yes, here it is?Walter Gordon. What business could he have here with you ?, The deafness of the organist of Deepweald was no longer comparative. He was as deaf as a stone. Very deaf men can sometimes manage to hear familiar voices, but John March was deaf even to the voice of Celia. Even she had to communicate with him by writing. No wonder that he was more than ever possessed by one idea, and that his mind was filled by his own music just as his ears were, now and henceforth, ?for they were closed to any other. She had to writeher answer now; and it was not easy. Could he have heard her speak, she would have found it difficult to say who was Walter Gordon?a private memory of Lindenheim who had suddenly come to life again in Deepweald. But to write down the whole story in a few words, as fast as her pencil could move was a sheer impossibility. She was learning to write fast, but the process was still an effort to her, and half her trouble was employed in making her words easily legible. ' I?knew?him?at?Lindenheim., ' Who is he ? What is he ? What is he doing here ], ' I?do?not?know., ' What has he been saying to you V That was doubly impossible to answer. ' He?met?me?in?the?street. He? called?to?see?me. We?were?friends? at?Lindenheim. We?have?been?talking ?of?Lindenheim., ' And you don, t know who he is?where he comes from ?, 'No., ' How is it you never spoke of him to me I don, t remember his name in any of your letters., He spoke anxiously; and indeed his great idea had never included in it one possibility with regard to Celia?that of a young man. It was likely enough, if he had the dimmest knowledge of the world, that the sudden appearance in his house of a handsome young..