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and is venting her spite on us"

"There'll be tooof the awful

stories"

"With the good old padre there? Hardly," said Nora

Celeste was a French woar And none of thearity"

"That's about all you know of ive theaily, "I've an idea Supposing you and I run back

after dinner and hide in the card-roo-rooan!"

"Molly Harrigan!" ible "Mother nize a jest"

"Ah, but yours!"

"Fine!" cried Celeste

As if to put a final period to the discussion, Nora began to hue in the village and were driven up to the villa On

the way Mrs Harrigan discussed the stranger, Edward Courtlandt What a

fine-looking young man he was, and how adventurous, hoell-connected,

how enormously rich, and what an excellent catch! She and Celeste--the one

innocently and the other provocatively--continued the subject to the very

doors of the villa All the while Nora hummed softly