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"Who taught you thoughtfulness?" she asked, gravely He stood

disconcerted "I find consideration co prettily; "our h and terrible as this give men the consideration that we expect

elsewhere and do not find? Ah, that poor shoveller Isn't it horrible

to die so? Did everyone else escape?"

"They are ready to start, I think," he suggested, uneasily

"Oh, are they?"

"You are co from the top, while

Glover paused behind her sister, when they had reached the stage He

stood with his hat in his hand The dazzling sun ht out the white of his

forehead where the hair crisped wet in the heat of the ained her seat with his help, looked

dohile he talked; looked at the top of his head, and listening

vaguely to Marie, noted his long, bony hand as it clung to the

strap--the hand of the most audacious man she had ever met in her

life--who had made an avowal to her on the observation platform of her

father's own car--and she mused at the explosion that would have

followed had she ever breathed a syllable of the circumstance to her

own fiery papa

But she had told no one--least of all, the youngtoher every

other day--Allen Harrison Indeed, what could bethan to be assailed so unexpectedly? She had noof it One thing,