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encrusted with uncut rubies and emeralds

"Girls," he called "Come here a moment Martha, that will be all,"

with a nod toward the door "I never showed you this before"

"Goodness gracious!" cried Winnie, reaching out her hand

"Why, it looks like a decoration, father," said Kathlyn "What lovely

stones! It would make a beautiful pendant"

"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity," said the colonel, s faces "Do you love your old dad?"

"Love you!" they exclainantly, too, since the

question was an imputation of the fact

"Would you be loneso Trek?" whimsically

"Father!"

"Dad!"

They pressed about hi it, I swear that this shall be the last hunt I'et rid of all these brutes and spend the rest of the years seeing the

show places I'o to

Paris, and Berlin, and Roo and

tell Rodin that you've inherited the spirit of Gerorand opera"