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To the joy of the conspirators, Bucks held Glover closely at

headquarters, keeping hi periods on the esti for the directors; and so dense are great

people and so keen the simple, that Gertrude held her lone seat of

honor beside her father, at the table of the great financiers in the

dining-room, without the remotest suspicion on their parts that the

superb wo on a

proudly-hidden love affair with theman who

sat alone across the aisle

But the asthhed at least two hundred and

thirty pounds and had not even seen the inside of the dining-roohly posted on every observable phase of the

affair down to the dessert orders; and no one acquainted with the frank

profanity of awent hot froe to Glover and Gertrude Dollar tips

and five-dollar tips froe this, for

the meals were served by waitresses who felt a personal responsibility

in the issue of the pretty affair of the heart

The whole second floor of the little hotel had been reserved for the

directors' party, and aularly every evening on Mr Brock, who, so man's interest, excused himself after the first

few entleman who had been