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Once out of the spell of the i daughter, Serviss began to doubt and to question "They are al Why should Mrs La, accidental and without explanation, ask hter's future?" The fact that his connection with an institution of learning gave hih with him He was of those who take professorships in the modern ith levity, either real or assumed

"I think, on the whole, I'd better keep out of this family complication, whatever it may be," he concluded "This absence of the husband in the hills nificant than at present appears--it may be a voluntary sequestration I take the hint I a new responsibilities, and I don't care to act as adviser, even to a pretty girl--especially not to a pretty girl" And he waved his hand in the ar

But this sliray eyes, was not so easily banished His inward eye dwelt upon her with increasing joy, "How beautiful she was, as she stood there on that bowlder! Perhaps she was posing? She is now at the very height of her girlish charion--those exquisite lips--that pliant waist--that full bosohter--so more than appears on the surface She is both sullen and hysterical What a pity!"

She continued to trouble hi meal on the veranda of the hotel He could hear the slow tra the sidewalks beneath him, and the roar of the Colorow, softened by distance, rose and fell like a drowsy tune On the highest peaks the after-glow still lingered, and froes deep in the shadow across the streanal, an invitation, and, the blood in hi, accepted the lure He rose with the iht for adventure There's no need of involving myself in any ith their future I'ood care to stay so" His face was impassive, but his heart was quick within hie "Perhaps this is my Rubicon?" he said, and paused with a moment's irresolution

His doubt, his suspicion, instantly vanished as he re-entered the pretty little sitting-rooed her daughter as the cause of his coe She will return in a moment Won't you please be seated?"