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"Our boat?" She frowned perplexedly, and then so back to the hotel first: I must leave a note--"

"As many notes as you please You can write here" He drew out a note-case and one of the new stylographic pens "I've even got an envelope--you see how everything's predestined! There--steady the thing on your knee, and I'll get the pen going in a second They have to be huainst the back of the bench "It's like jerking down the hed, and bending over the sheet of paper which he had laid on his note-case, began to write Archer walked away a few steps, staring with radiant unseeing eyes at the passersby, who, in their turn, paused to stare at the unwonted sight of a fashionably-dressed lady writing a note on her knee on a bench in the Common

Madame Olenska slipped the sheet into the envelope, wrote a name on it, and put it into her pocket Then she too stood up

They walked back toward Beacon Street, and near the club Archer caught sight of the plush-lined "herdic" which had carried his note to the Parker House, and whose driver was reposing fro his brow at the corner hydrant

"I told you everything was predestined! Here's a cab for us You see!" They laughed, astonished at theup a public conveyance at that hour, and in that unlikely spot, in a city where cab-stands were still a "foreign" novelty

Archer, looking at his watch, saw that there was ti to the steah the hot streets and drew up at the door of the hotel

Archer held out his hand for the letter "Shall I take it in?" he asked; but Mada out and disappeared through the glazed doors It was barely half-past ten; but what if the e how else to e the travellers with cooling drinks at their elbows of wholimpse as she went in?

He waited, pacing up and down before the herdic A Sicilian youth with eyes like Nastasia's offered to shine his boots, and an Irish matron to sell him peaches; and every few moments the doors opened to let out hot lanced at him as they went by He marvelled that the door should open so often, and that all the people it let out should look so like each other, and so like all the other hot th and breadth of the land, were passing continuously in and out of the swinging doors of hotels