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Ellery stood with his arm around his wife's waist and looked about with

a quizzical expression that "

"And pray what business have you, sir, to live in anything but the

present?"

"Perhaps I get et yesterday When I

first came to St Etienne, sweetheart, Dick took me to his home You

knoith your mere mind, but you can not appreciate, how unrelated rily I looked at that restful

roo--my

soul--to have a hoe your soul to et it"

"True I paid dearly," he said "But I ondering hoas that you

had ed to put so much atmosphere into so untried a place It looks

to me as impossible as a miracle Here are some nealls, and new

furniture and new curtains and new vases and new pictures Even the

books are reen

fruit A book isn't ripe until it begins to be frayed around the edges

It would seem to me a hopeless job to make a home out of all this raw

material Yet this room already reminds me of Mrs Percival's library,

Madeline, and it isn't only because it is a long roo," she answered "Now all we have to do

is to live in it"

"You talk as though 'living' were a very easy matter," he re in the world, judging by the