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"Bah! Did she send you after me? Give me her address I have come all the

way frouardedly clothed the question with contempt, but she

instantly forced a smile to neutralize the effect Concerned with her own

defined conclusions, she lost the fine ironic bitterness that was in the

man's voice

"Aye, indeed, to see her! Beautiful as Venus, as alluring as Phryne, I

want nothing so much as to see her, to look into her eyes, to hear her

voice!"

"Is it jealousy? I hear the tragic note" The certainty of her ground

becaedy? I aers We turn them

over to the critics I wish to see the beautiful Flora, to ask her a few

questions If she has sent you afterlady,

her address" His eyes burned

"I am afraid" And she was so This wasn't the tone of a er

"Afraid of what?"

"You"

"I will give you a hundred francs" He watched her closely and shrewdly

Caed in perplexity "A

hundred francs, for so I was sent to tell you?"

"And now refuse"

"It is very generous She has a heart of flint, Monsieur"