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His dee at

Auchinleven, where he arrived about the ust, piqued and

perplexed Myra Not only did Don Carlos keep his pro love to her, but he seemed to avoid her as much as

possible, and was only forether

Yet he made love to practically all the other ladies of the party, and

obviously set the hearts of several of the younger ones fluttering

Myra tried to persuade herself she was thankful to be relieved of his

ardent attentions, but at heart she was annoyed to find herself ignored

"I suppose he is proving that he was only a was

my complaint about him seem absurd Bother the man! I have half a

mind to try to make him fall in love with me in earnest, and then take

the conceit out of hi myself

at his expense"

What added to her inward vexation was the fact that Don Carlos appeared

to have won the good opinion of all the other ratiated himself with Tony Standish, who constantly