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to him," Myra whispered to her reflection in thelove to me for his own amusement,

and would sheer off if I took him seriously and expected him to marry

me A pretty fool I should look if I fell in love with hie

to fall in love with hi, and he would

be a wonderful lover if he were in earnest, but he can't make a fool of

Myra Rostrevor I'll show the conceited creature that there is one

girl at least who does not find hiain at the first opportunity"

Yet again she had the opportunity sooner than she had expected Al into the hands of Don Carlos

That very evening Myra discovered, to her inward consternation, that

Don Carlos de Ruiz was the guest of honour at the dinner-dance to which

she had been invited, and her hostess, finding they had ether at the dinner table

"Truly, the gods are good, fair lady!" exclai "I a a partner And I think I have reason to congratulateto surprise you tithin a few hours"