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Plank and Leila Mortiratulate them Sylvia, always instinctively and particularly nice to people of Plank's sort whom she occasionally encountered, was so faultlessly amiable, that Plank, who had never before per her, found hi it so easily that it kept him in a state of persistentinflection to a statement which instantly became a confided question was an unconscious trick which had been responsible, in Sylvia's brief life, forelse Like others before him, Beverly Plank made the mistake that the sweetness of voice and the friendliness of eyes were particularly personal to hih hitherto not suspected in himself Now he suspected them, and whatever of real qualities desirable had been latent in hi his modest suspicions Certainly he was a wit! Was not this perfectly charh? Certainly he was epigra, sy all the while Could he not divine it in her undivided attention, the quick, a her beautiful face when he had turned a particularly successful phrase or taken a verbal hurdle without a cropper? And above all, her kindness to hireeable Here he was already on an infor with one of the persons of who to be as considerate of him as she had proved, hy-His dull, Dutch-blue eyes returned to her, fascinated The conquest of what he desired and ue plan which included such a e as he had dreamed of

Somebody had once told hio anywhere;a man, nature had fitted his feet with the paraphernalia for clih truth in the state irons; and he had done so, carrying his fortune with him, which had proved neither an impediment nor an aid so far But now he had concluded that neither his god-sent cli irons, his amiability, his obstinacy, his mild, tireless persistency, nor his money counted It had co character h sheer old whose altars are served by a sexless skeleton in cap and bells!