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"It seee," observed Nora, "that I never heard you mention that

you knew a Mr Courtlandt"

"Why, Nora, there's a lot of things nobody s

them up Courtlandt--the one I knew--has been dead these sixteen years If

I knew he had had a son, I'd forgotten all about it The only graveyard

isn't on the hillside; there's one under everybody's thatch"

The padre nodded approvingly

Nora was not particularly pleased with this phase in the play Courtlandt

would find a valiant champion in her father, ould blunder in when

soed And she could not tell hiue rather It was true that she held the

principal cards in the game, but she could not table thee She must patiently wait for him to lead, and he, as

she very well kneould lead a card at a time, and then only after

mature deliberation From the exhilaration which attended the prospect of

battle she passed into a state of depression, which lasted the rest of the

afternoon

"Will you forgive me?" asked Celeste of Courtlandt Never had she felt

more ill at ease For a full ten htest hint regarding the episode in Paris She could stand it no

longer "Will you forgive ht in Paris"

"Do not per to

recall it"