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"I have not spoken of money to her," replied Wether "But why should you think that I--I, of all

ain enig, monsieur, I am sorry, but you can help me too,"

she said, in her sub

Wetherain she proposed--the impertinence of it! It was a

bargain she proposed--the value of it! In that shape ran Harry

Wetherh to the

world's eye he was a ambler, with no inexpensive

tastes, he had been always in need of o He was not an idler; he was no

shanorant public He had really

soenius, and he cultivated it assiduously But the

harder he worked, the greater was his need of gaiety and

extravagance Gifted with good looks and a charreat world and the world of Bohemia He kept

and wanted to keep a foot in each That he was in desperate

straits now, probably Helene Vauquier alone in Aix had recognised

She had drawn her inference from one simple fact Wethermill asked

her at a later tiuessed his need

"Monsieur," she replied, "you were in Aix without a valet, and it