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Helene Vauquier leaned back again, her strength exhausted, and

suidly

"I will tell you But res which you will count silly and trivial ht last June--only last June! To think of

it! So little while ago there was no Mlle Celie--" and, as Hanaud

raised his hand, she said hurriedly, "Yes, yes; I will control

myself But to think of Mme Dauvray now!"

And thereupon she blurted out her story and explained to Mr

Ricardo the question which had so perplexed hiirl of so

with a woht in June," said Helene Vauquier, "madame ith

a party to supper at the Abbaye Restaurant in Montht home for the first time Mlle Celie But you should have

seen her! She had on a little plaid skirt and a coat which was

falling to pieces, and she was starving--yes, starving Madaht as I undressed her Mlle Celie was

there dancing amidst the tables for a supper with any one who

would be kind enough to dance with her"

The scorn of her voice rang through the roo out her contempt And

Wetherlance at