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As he was hunting for a taxicab, the waiter ran out and told hiotten to settle for the wine The lady had refused to do so

Courtlandt chuckled and gave him a ten-franc piece In other days, in

other circumstances, he would have liked to know more about the unknoho scribbled notes on composition paper She was not an idler in the Rue

Royale, and it did not require that indefinable intuition which coht be a friend of the

Desimone woman, but she had stepped out of another sphere to become so He

recognized the quality that could adjust itself to any environment and

come out scatheless This was undeniably an American accomplishment; and

yet she was distinctly a Frenchwoman He diso as fast as the police would per wo sure

that Courtlandt had been driven off, left the restaurant Round the corner

she engaged a carriage So that was Edward Courtlandt? She liked his face;

there was not a weak line in it, unless stubbornness could be called such

But to stay away for two years! To hide hiles, to be heard of

only by his harebrained exploits! "Follow hioes," had

been the command For a moment she had rebelled, but her curiosity was not

to be denied Besides, of what use was friendship if not to be tried? She

knew nothing of the riddle, she had never asked a question openly She had

accidentally seen a photograph one day, in a trunk tray, with this man's