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After supper the Lieutenant and Naida danced twice together, the young

girl's ed to one of buoyant, careless

happiness, her dark eyes sht caay andher with the

jealousy of a lover, she appeared distrait and restless, her

affectation of abandon a s There was a

peculiar watchfulness in her glances about the crowded room, while her

flushed cheeks, and the distinctly false note in her laughter, began to

trouble hiht have passed

unnoted but for their contrast with the late confidential chat

He could not reconcile this sudden change hat he believed of her

It was not carried out with the practised art of one accusto her action These

htly with her to the

ether in little snatches

He had forgotten Miss Spencer, forgotten everything else about hiirl whose name

even he did not know In every way she had appealed to his

i his interest, his curiosity, his respect, and

even nohen some secret seethen his resolve to advance still farther in her regard