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Kate at once engaged hiht not fall into argu people a little tilad when Weiss alertly through his horn-bowed glasses; he not reat man was as animated as a cricket (this was his societyher thebriskly from one heavy German compliment to another, quite unaware, apparently, that she was anything irl

He took her out to dinner, with elaborate courtesy, and divided his attentions between his partner and his hostess withnow upon Viola, now upon Kate, with such well-calculated intervals that Serviss broke into a broad smile

"You find yourself well placed, Dr Weissmann?"

"Well placed and well pleased," he responded, quickly, "with no thanks to you, I suspect"

Kate wasfor Viola--it made her party a little less difficult; but she was anxious to have Morton free to talk with Viola, and to that end drew the good doctor into conversation with Clarke, as not at all pleased with his seat, which was by design at the farthest reht not have been seated side by side

As Kate remarked to Marion afterwards, it was a hard tea like private conversation at either end, and to enter upon general topics was to start Clarke and Weissmann into dialectic clamor "I trusted in the food," she answered to Marion's query "It was a good dinner and kept even the preacher silent--part of the tilance, which rested often on Viola, was not pleasant He was afraid of her when she shone thus brightly aet her work, her endow speeches and caresses It was all so childish, so foolish in her, so undignified in one who meant so much to the sin-darkened world

Mrs Lalad (for the rave duties, and sat blandly s people talked animatedly on a wide list of subjects

Morton was delighted to find that Viola had read a good many books, not always the best books, but of such variety that her irl Her experience in life was very slight, but her hunger to knoas keen He was eager to draw her out on her morbid side, but, as he had said to Kate, "Weof unbroken nore Clarke, I will do the rest"