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Elsie dared nothad suddenly

poured its miraculous waters over her Incidents unimportant in

themselves, utterances which seemed to have no veiled intent at the

ti conviction Christobal

suspected her of flirting with Courtenay, and disapproved of it as

strongly as she herself had condeh not a little dismayed, she resolved to carry

the war into the eneluiven you a shock, or is it that you are surprised at my

levity?"

"I am neither shocked nor surprised, Miss Maxwell I have not lived

fifty years in this Vale of Tears without being prepared for the

unexpected"

"Does that imply that you are disillusioned?"

"By no'There is no fool like an

old fool,' you know"

"Oh, please don't speak of age in that way You are far fro an

antiquity Why, within the past twenty-four hours I have come to look

on you as a sort of elder brother, who can be indulgent even while he

chides"

Courtenay found hi what had caused this flash of