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"It's hard luck," said Crawford, syet this tangle straightened out"

"I shouldn't mind, Jim, if it weren't for Kitty," replied his wife "I

a her into this coupé and get into hers

myself She's a heady little lady, if you want to know As it is,

she'll get back to the hotel quicker than we shall Her cab is five

up If you wish, I'll take a look in and see if she's all right"

"Please do;" and she s

"You're the most beautiful woht went out There was a srette in her copper-beech hair was all

askew

"If anybody saw us!"--secretly pleased and delighted, as any woman

would have been who possessed a husband as her lover all his

waking hours

"What! in this fog? And a lot I'd care if they did Now, don't stir

till I coht back; I' lonesome already"

He stepped out of the coupé Harlequin, and Colombine, and

Humpty-Dumpty; shapes which ca, for all the world like the absurd pantomimes of his

boyhood days He kept close to the curb, scrutinizing the nu Two paces away froence Indeed, there were a thousand