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Audrey was in Paris on the eleventh of Noveot back there, and reveled for a day or two in the s She liked the streets and the

crowds She liked watching the Aarets and surveying the city with interested, patronizing

eyes And, always, walking briskly along the Rue Royale or the Avenue de

l'Opera, or in the garden of the Tuileries where the school-boys played

their odd French ga the faces of the men she

faster She was

quite honest with herself; she knew that she atching for Clay, and

she had a nificent shamelessness in her quest And now at last The

Daily Mail had announced his arrival in France, and at first every

ring of her telephone had sent her to it, somewhat breathless but quite

confident He would, she considered, call up the Red Cross at the Hotel

Regina, and they would, by her instructions, give her hotel

Then, on that Monday , which was the eleventh, she realized that

he would not call her up She knew it suddenly and absolutely She sat

dohen the knowledge ca that if

he did not come to her now he never would come Yet even then she did