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Toward the middle of the summer, certain business interests called Dick

to North Dakota, and then life was duller than ever

Therefore it was a not wholly unwelcoust afternoon, she saw the thick laurels of the hedge near her part a

little and the form of Ram Juna stand in the cleft, snohite fro ruby and the polished bronze

face He looked like the day itself, glowing, sultry, indolent

"Pardon h the bush I spied you I

was solitary You are solitary The heat suits not with the severer

thought The weak body refuses to yield to the commands of uess your thinking is harder work thanWon't you come

over and sit down?" said Lena cordially

"Then you, like me, would welcome companionship?"

"Yes Isn't this a nice shady place?" Lena answered "Theood to you

if you have been trying to write that wonderful book of yours in all

this blaze"

The Hindu pushed the hedge still farther asunder and sith a sigh

of content over to a cushioned reclining chair

"If one's heart were set on the things that fade, what greater

satisfaction? Shadow, deep shadow from the heat, cool drafts, the voice