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"Would it?" asked Salanced at his watch "Two

minutes up," he announced "The model will please resume the pose By

the way, may I drive with you to-morrow afternoon?"

The next afternoon, Sa the bell, and a fewoutside, and, as the girl came down the stairs in

ers on the bannisters

tightened in surprise as she looked at the

his hat in his hand, with his face upturned The well-shaped head was

no longer marred by the mane which it had formerly worn, but was close

cropped, and under the transfore the

forehead seeth of

the purposeful features was enhanced, and yet, had she known it, the

man felt that he had for the first time surrendered a point whichakin to principle

She said nothing, but as she took his hand in greeting, her fingers

pressed his own in handclasp , when Samson returned to the studio, he found a

missive in his letter-box, and, as he took it out, his eyes fell on the

postmark It was dated from Hixon, Kentucky, and, as the man slowly

climbed the stairs, he turned the envelope over in his hand with a

strange sense ofand premonition