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One afternoon, swinging along Fifth Avenue in his doalk,

Saan to ested after the commonplaces had been

disposed of, "you'll pardonmet you at the Manhattan Club?"

"Why was it necessary?" inquired Sa

directness

"Possibly, it was not necessary, hed, "every man knoo kinds of women It's just as well not to

discuss the nectarines with the orchids, or the orchids with the

nectarines"

Sa his eyes, felt as though

he had been contemptuously rebuked His own eyes clouded with an

impulse of resentment But it passed, as he re this boy's confidence An assuically fro woman whom he should not have

exposed to coly, he laughed

"You mustn't take me too literally, South," he explained "The life

here has a tendency to h we

may be quite the reverse in our practices In point of fact, I fancy ere both rather out of our element at Collasso's studio"

At the steps of a Fifth Avenue club, Farbish halted