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Abbott's studio was under the roof of one of the little hotels that stand

ti cream-stucco

of the Grand Hotel at one end and the elaborate pink-stucco of the Grande

Bretegne at the other The hobnailed shoes of the Teuton (ears his

to Palermo) wore up and down the

stairs all day; and the racket fro and departing fro boat of

unpedigreed dogs,--these noises were incessant frolared down from his squareat the ruffled waters, or

scowled at the fleeting snows on the mountains over the way He passed

some ten or twelve et away from the bald fact that he had acted like a petulant child To

have shown his hand so openly, simply because the Barone had beaten him in

the race for the motor-boat! And Nora would understand that he eak

and without backbone Harrigan himself must have reasoned out the cause

for such asinine plays as he had executed in the game of checkers How

many times had the old man called out to him to wake up and move? In

spirit he had been across the lake, a spirit in Hades He was not only a

fool, but a coward likewise He had not dared to " put it to the touch

To gain or lose it all"

He saw it co he and that Italian would be at each other's