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"That isn't the point, Don Carlos," hastily interposed Tony, beginning

to regret havingto believe

that you have not seriously been trying to steal Myra's affections away

from me, or that possibly Myra may have taken you too seriously"

"How can a mere man hope to read what is in the heart of a woarette "Our Spanish

girls, if they think an accepted lover is not sufficiently devoted and

attentive, will co passionate

love--thus arousing the lover's jealousy and re-firing him with ardour;

and a married woman will invent a lover and complain of his attentions

for the sa"

"I say, Don Carlos, are you suggesting that Myra complained for that

reason--because she thinks I' anything I ay of the wolishworeatly, after all, from

their Latin sisters where affairs of the heart are concerned Won't

you have a cigarette?"

Tony accepted a cigarette from the silver-and-cedar-wood box that was

slid across the table to hihtful

deliberation Had Myra co love to her

just to keep hi, and found himself

more puzzled than ever He knew that lots of men had been, and

probably still were, in love with Myra, and that fact made him the more