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The Harrigans occupied the suite in the east wing of the villa This

consisted of a large drawing-room and two ample bedchambers, with

-balconies and a private veranda in the rear, looking off toward the

green of the pines and the metal-like luster of the copper beeches Always

the suite was referred to by theonce been tenanted

by the eenerally and

respectively and impressively shown the suite (provided it was not at the

erly about for soust presence But royalty in passing, as with thebehind save the , a fine, soft, blurring Alpine rain, and a blue-grey

monotone prevailed upon the face of the waters and defied all save the

keenest scrutiny to discern where the an It was a day for indoors, for drearapher would have ad-roo to snap the faed in so china, or playing the

piano, or reading a voluruence of the eyes, which were invariably focused at the caan was deep in the intricate na, which, as the initiated know, is a wonderful

lace By one of the s sat Nora, winding inter digits of the Barone, as

speculating as to what his Neapolitan club friends would say could they

see, by so, his present occupation Celeste was

at the piano, playing (pianissimo) snatches from the operas, while