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She kissed hiain and went into her bedroom Kind-hearted,

iet all about this

heart-to-heart talk, and shoo away every male who hadn't a title or a

million, or asn't due to fall heir to one or the other

Nevertheless, she had long since ht, and she did not propose to surrender it

to anybody Her weary head on the pillow, she thought of the voices in

the fog "A wager's a wager"

The nextwas not quite so thick; that is, in places

there were holes and punctures You saw a ain, you saw the top of a cab bowling along,

but no horse: phantash Misfortune was turned

into jest At least, they made a fine show of it; which is

characteristic of people who bow to the inevitable whenever confronted

by it Crawford was passing his cigars, when a page was announced

The boy entered briskly, carrying a tray upon which reposed a sht you e pocketed the shilling politely and departed

"That's the first bit of live work I've seen anybody do in this hotel,"

co a match

"I have stopped here often," said Crawford, "and they are familiar with

my wishes Excuse an chatting again, about the fog, what they

intended doing in Paris, sunshiny Paris By and by Crawford ca on the table before his wife's plate

It was the Nana Sahib's ruby, so-called