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"No I don't think that was it" Iris sank down on to the cushioned -seat and gazed thoughtfully ahead "I think----I wonder if that last song could have any associations for him? Has he been in India?"

"I don't know" Chloe smiled faintly "You must ask him, Iris I suppose your father would send for hione?"

"I suppose so" Iris spoke rather dreaht he was quite old--at least forty," said the schoolgirl "And then, when he talked to Cherry I was not really sure I guessed he s and look older than he was And now----"

She broke off, and for a h her blue, alhtly quizzical expression

"And now"--she said at length--"what is your opinion now?"

"Now"--Iris spoke very slowly, and in her eyes was soth whose possibility Anstice had divined--"I think he has the very saddest face I have ever seen in my life"