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"You are boasting again," interposed Myra once more "I have no desire

or inclination to listen to an account of your amorous conquests"

"But you e

me True, there have been many women in my life, but not one who

inspired love, not one to whom I offered o it was foretold by a gipsy gifted with

second sight that I should n land, meet my ideal, the woman of my dreams That prophecy has

come true The moment our eyes first met yesterday I knew you were the

wo It is useless to fight

against destiny, Myra I shall win you by hook or by crook, and e, Don Carlos," retorted Myra with forced

lightness "As you believe in gipsy forecasts, however, let o, warned me to

beware of a tall, dark man, and foretold that I should ht, you are obviously the tall, dark man of

whom I am to beware, just as Tony Standish is the man I am destined to

marry"

"Pouf! I pay no heed to the foolish prattle of so-called gipsy

fortune-tellers," said Don Carlos, sain "The seer who

foretold that I shouldof the Spanish

Gypsies, and his every prophecy comes true"

"Well, to make his prophecy come true as far as you are concerned, Don

Carlos, you will have to fall in love with someone other than me,"

responded Myra "Hadn't you better have some tea, señor?"