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"Touched!" he h sportsood point even when taken by his opponent

"I never saw anything like it," whispered Mrs Harrigan into the colonel's

ear

"Sahat?" he asked

"Mr Courtlandt can't keep his eyes off of Nora"

"I say!" The colonel adjusted his eye-glass, not that he expected to see

since turned an

affectation into a movement wholly mechanical "Well, who can blame him?

Gad! if I were only twenty-five or thereabouts"

Mrs Harrigan did not encourage this regret The colonel had never been a

rich man On the other hand, this Edward Courtlandt was very rich; he was

young; and he had the entrée to the best fareater in her eyes than either youth or riches Between sips of tea she

builded a fine castle in Spain

Abbott and the Barone carried their cups and cakes over to the bench and

sat down on the grass, Turkish-wise Both sier frohed and the Barone

shed Nora drolly

"Huh?"

"Don't let mother see those shoes"