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jealousy, did you?"

"I don't know, Tony," replied Myra evasively "If the positions were

reversed and I were engaged to Don Carlos and you had beenlove

to me, I expect he would have killed you by now, and perhaps strangled

lish hurt

"If you ner----"

"Oh, Tony, dear, don't be absurd!" interrupted Myra, her

"I see how you looked at the lad you

have such faith in ard your

indifference to his rivalry as being alht of it that way, Myra, but in any case I know you'll

be able to keep Don Carlos at a distance if he should try to ain," answered Tony "Sure you're not vexed with me, dear?"

"I don't knohether I'm vexed or pleased, amused or scared, but I am

certainly thrilled," said Myra "To think that Don Carlos, who boasted

that no woman could resist him, should confess to you, that he has lost

his heart to me!"