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To Myra's relief, Lady Fer been detained so long at the telephone

"I hope Myra has been keeping you entertained, señor," she inquired,

and Don Carlos nodded sh," he answered "Miss Rostrevor

and I have been discussing predestination I have been telling her it

was foretold by the King of the Gypsies that in this, my thirty-fifth

year, I should meet my ideal, the woman predestined to be my wife I

have met her The prophecy has come true"

"I'm afraid it is another case of mistaken identity, Aunt Clarissa,"

interposed Myra "Señor de Ruiz has estion that I a ht to cover Don Carlos with confusion, but he did not turn a

hair

"Alas, Lady Fer niece refuses to take ly lamented "It seems she arned as a child

to beware of a tall, dark, handsome man, and to put no faith in his

honeyed words I am desolated--but only temporarily!"

"Froed in a

'leg-pulling' contest," colance fro that Myra was probably

evolving some mischievous joke "You don't mean to tell me seriously,