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"But you haven't invited arette Besides, you didn't expect to h a question for him to say, "Yes, I did"

"How could you?"

"I saw you leave the rooe Do you wish me to believe that you noticed me--"

"--And followed you? Yes, I did follow you" She looked at him, then past him toward a corner of the wide hall where a"Careful!" she ain"

"Won't you--"

"Oh, dear! you mustn't speak so loud," she e of that adorable smile once more

"Couldn't we have a moment--"

"No--"

"One ht co particularly i bay- at the end of the other corridor Will you coood night" again, and closed it noiselessly behind her

He walked on, turning into his corridor, but kept straight ahead, passing his own door, on to theat the end of the hall, then north along a wide passagehich ter the roof of the indoor swiainst the panes and on the lighted roof of opalescent glass below, through which he could make out the shadowy fronds of palhted one presently, and, leaving his chair, curled up in the cushioned and pillo-seat, gathering his knees together under his arhted went out He had bitten into it and twisted it so roughly that it presently cru his jaws in silence For the night threatened to be a bad one for hilass at dinner had stirred up what had for a ti--some sweetmeat he had tasted--was saturated in brandy

Now, his restlessness at the prospect of a blank night had quickened to uneasiness, with a hint of fever tinting his skin, but, as yet, the dull ache in his body was scarcelyhi, blind, dogged traht, in the rain, one stood every chance of walking off the cliffs; and he was sick of reading hihtless over the sort of books sent wholesale to Shotover; and he was already too ill at ease, physically, toendurable