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The declaration of war found Grahaidly to his promise, but it is doubtful if Natalie alone could

have kept, hi her influence, too! She

held hie and

threats of breaking the engagereed to play Natalie's ga it

Graham did not analyze his owna s Life, which had seemed to be a simple

thing, compounded of work and play, had become involved, difficult and

wretched

Some times he watched Clayton almost with envy He see And he wondered if

there had been a tumultuous youth behind the quiet of his maturity

He compared the even course of Clayton's days, his work, his club, the

immaculate orderliness of his life, with his own disordered existence

He was hedged about omen Wherever he turned, they obtruded

themselves He made plans and women brushed them aside He tried to live

his life, and women stepped in and lived it for hiht, with her friendship always overclouded with

disapproval Wherever he turned, a woman stood in the way Yet he could

not do without theradually, into his self-engrossment there penetrated a conviction

that all was not well between his father and his ranted much as he did the house and the servants In his

brief vacations during his college days they had agreed or disagreed,