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"Well, what do you think of that? Nora told uess I

will"

"Why, yes If alike this anonymously, he can't possibly

complain Have it made into a stick pin" Courtlandt returned the stone

which Harrigan pocketed

"So You wouldn't have quit the gae!"

"I should say not! But that's different A rub, whether in an office or in the ring That's a part of the gaht to have a hoood citizens That's e are all here for Molly used to

stay at ho until

night Ah, here's Carlos with the tea"

Herr Rosen instantly usurped the chair next to Nora, who began to pour the

tea He had coreeable

half-hour Instead of being greeted with icy glances from stormy eyes, he

encountered such smiles as this adorable creature had never before

bestowed upon hiht at Cadenabbia had

apparently knocked the bottom out of his dream Women were riddles which

only they themselves could solve for others For this one wo aside A man lived but once; and he

was a fool ould hold to tinsel in preference to such happiness as he

thought he saw opening out before him Nora saw, but she did not care

That in order to reach another she was practising infinite cruelty on this