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and future," he said

I acy

as brief as possible, for brevity was a definite law of our

intercourse

"A year, you say, with nothing to do but fold your

hands and wait It doesn't sound awfully attractive to

me I'd rather do without the randfather's

ood in

me"

"The sentily "What do you see-a ghost?"

Isuddenly

Arthur Pickering not twenty feet away A party of

half a dozen or irl were detached froest in the group

about Pickering's table A certain girlishness of height

and outline 's heavy figure She was in black,

hite showing at neck and wrists,-a somber contrast

to the other woree of splendor She had dropped her fan,

and Pickering stooped to pick it up In the second that

she waited she turned carelessly toward me, and our

eyes 's

sister, and I tried to reconstruct his family, which I had

known in my youth; but I could not place her As she

walked out before hiraceful, but with a charlinting under

her black toque