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She had her bow and arrow in her hand, and placing herself on the chalk-mark traced on the turf she lifted the bow to her shoulder and took airace that a murmur of appreciation followed her appearance, and Archer felt the glow of proprietorship that so often cheated hiie Chivers, the Merry girls, and divers rosy Thorleys, Dagonets and Mingotts, stood behind her in a lovely anxious group, brown heads and golden bent above the scores, and pale led in a tender rainbow All were young and pretty, and bathed in summer bloom; but not one had the nymph-like ease of his wife, when, with tense muscles and happy frown, she bent her soul upon soth

"Gad," Archer heard Lawrence Lefferts say, "not one of the lot holds the bow as she does"; and Beaufort retorted: "Yes; but that's the only kind of target she'll ever hit"

Archer felt irrationally angry His host's contemptuous tribute to May's "niceness" was just what a husband should have wished to hear said of his wife The fact that a coarse in attraction was simply another proof of her quality; yet the words sent a faint shiver through his heart What if "niceness" carried to that supreation, the curtain dropped before an e flushed and cal that he had never yet lifted that curtain

She took the congratulations of her rivals and of the rest of the corace No one could ever be jealous of her triu that she would have been just as serene if she had loith the pleasure she saw in his

Mrs Welland's basket-work pony-carriage aiting for thees, May handling the reins and Archer sitting at her side

The afternoon sunlight still lingered upon the bright lawns and shrubberies, and up and down Bellevue Avenue rolled a double line of victorias, dog-carts, landaus and "vis-a-vis," carrying well-dressed ladies and gentlearden-party, or ho the Ocean Drive

"Shall we go to see Granny?" May suddenly proposed "I should like to tell her myself that I've won the prize There's lots of time before dinner"

Archer acquiesced, and she turned the ponies down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky ion Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a e-orne on a bit of cheap land overlooking the bay Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread the drive led up between iron stags and blue glass balls ehly-varnished walnut under a striped verandah-roof; and behind it ran a narrow hall with a black and yellow star-patterned parquet floor, upon which opened four ss on which an Italian house-painter had lavished all the divinities of Olympus One of these rooott when the burden of flesh descended on her, and in the adjoining one she spent her days, enthroned in a large armchair between the open door and , and perpetually waving a palious projection of her bosom kept so far from the rest of her person that the air it set in e of the anti-macassars on the chair-arms