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With a dim suspicion of her wish to cover some deception, he answered: "My entrance was quite as unpre humor "I really came to call upon you, to welcome you to the city and to talk of the West The usher mistook me for one of the seekers and thrust me bodily into the circle Please believe that I acted upon sudden i your wrist I am heartily ashaht, no excuse--although your 'guides,' as you call theer to have me sit beside you"

"I do not blaely silent

He studied her with lorious bosom, the poise of her head, all the lines that had , were there, erous in their witchery than ever For two years their thoughts had subtly crossed and intertwined, and she now felt his doubt, his question, almost as keenly as if he had uttered the, with a distinctly tender tone, "Are you thinking of Colorow? I am"

She flushed and started a little "Yes"

"I was recalling ht on atio to me"

"It doesn't to me It seems but yesterday My trip that year was a syht of it a thousand times" He paused a moment, then added: "Well, now, here you are in New York, and here I am, and what of your music? I was to advise you, you reesture "You know my secret now" It was as if she said, "Coently; "I knew so of it at the time"

Her eyes bravely searched his "Was that why you did not colance fell in a wish that she had been less cruelly direct She went on: "You needn't answer I' treated that way I knew somebody had told you I was a medium You despised me when you found out about me--everybody does, except those ant to use o by on the other side as if I were a leper It was so in Boston; it is going to be the same here"