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"Even if I have mixed my metaphors, señorita, I assure you I have never

been more serious in my life," Don Carlos retorted "May I call on you

to-morrow to convince you of that fact?"

"No, thank you, señor," answered Myra "And if you are really in

earnest, I shall instruct the servants that I am never at home to Don

Carlos de Ruiz"

"You are cruel, dear lady, but I warn you I am not to be rebuffed,"

said Don Carlos "Love will surely find a way"

The ed herself frolad to escape She could not

have analysed her own feelings, and found herself at a loss to kno

to deal with the situation To complain to Tony Standish seemed

futile Tony, if she told hinant and demand an explanation, and Myra felt sure in her own mind

he would come off second best if there was a scene and a personal

encounter

"Sure, and is it frightened you are of the conceited Spaniard?" she

asked herself "You've prided yourself on being aable to keep any ardent suitor at arth, and here you

are in a funk! It's ashamed of you I am, Myra Rostrevor!"