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OneIt had

been cut from a so-called society journal, and it was claave information for

divorce cases as their specialty

First curiously, then with er, Clayton read that the wife

of a pro seen constantly in out

of the way places with the young architect as building a palace for

her out of the profiteer's neealth "It is quite probable," ended the

notice, "that the episode will end in an explosion louder than the best

shell the husband in the case ever turned out"

Clayton did not believe the thing for a moment He was infuriated,

butinference of the

prospectus He had a momentary clear vision, however, of Natalie, of

her idle days, of perhaps a futile last clutch at youth He had no rity than of his own But he had a very

distinct feeling that she had exposed his na

Had there been anything real behind it, he ht have understood, in