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Although Noble had saluted the old couple so crossly, thus unconsciouslythem, as he made the sidewalk, proxy for Mr Atwater, so to speak, yet the sight of them penetrated his outer layers of preoccupation and had an effect upon hiination paused for a shudder: What ray shadows those tere! Thank Heaven he and Julia could never be like that! And in the haze that rose before his h years of adventure in far parts of the world: there were glie of Himalayan precipices at dahile Julia knelt by the tent on the glacier and prayed for hi hin cafés," and when they were seated, and he had ordered dishes that amazed her, he would say in a low voice: "Don't look now, but do you see that heavy-shoulderedwith that adventuress and those eight officers who are really his guards? Don't be alaret that man! Perhaps you remember what your father once said of me? Nohat I have to do here is done, perhaps you s to that old ain close by: "He said he just could stand the sarettes, but if you burned any more o' yours on his porch----" And Noble caain

From an upperof a new stucco house two maidens of nineteen peered down at hi protected thefroht ofespecially fortunate, since they were preparing to take a conversational afternoon nap, were robed with little substance, and their heads appeared to be antlered; for they caught sight of Noble just as they were preparing to put silk-and-lace things they called "caps" on their heads

"Who's that?" the visiting one asked

"It's Noble Dill; he's kind of one of the crowd"

"Is he nice?"

"Oh, sort of Kind of shambles around"

"Looks like last year's straw hat to led

"Oh, he tries to dress--lately, that is--but he never did kno"

"Looks "