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Natalie had been subordinate to his interest in her house He had been

creating a beautiful thing, and he had had a very real joy in it But

lately he knew that his work on the house had been that he round for Natalie He had put into it the best of his ability, and

she was not worth it

For some days he neither wrote nor called her up He was not happy, but

he had a sense of relief He held his head a trifle higher, was his own

an to make tentative inquiries as to whether he

could be useful in the national eency or not He was half-hearted at

first, but he found out so The ht back some of his old friends They had seemed

to drop away, before, but they came back heartily and with hands out

"Work?" said Terry Mackenzie, at the club one day, looking up fro balls about, rather at haphazard

"Why, of course you can work What about these new cantonht to be useful there They don't

want 'ehed But he put down his cue

and took Rodney by the arm