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There seemed, in fact, little to interest her that suh she never refused any plans made for her, and her attitude was one of quiet acquiescence always--she never expressed a preference for anything, a desire to do anything; and, if let alone, was prone to pace the cliffs or stretch her slim, rounded body on the sand of some little, sheltered, crescent beach, apparently content with the thunderous cally been extinguished Once or twice she did inquire as to Marion's whereabouts, and learned that Miss Page was fishing in Minnesota so opened Somebody, Captain Voucher, perhaps,that Sias still in New York If she heard sheshe remained abed with a headache, and Grace motored to Wendover without her; but Sylvia spent the balance of the day on the cliffs, and played Bridge with the devil's own luck till dawn, piling up a score that staggered Mr Fleetwood, who had been instructing her in adversary play a day or two before

The hot atha Caithness arrived a few days later--sche Alderdene!--but the Siwanoa did not come, and Plank remained invisible Leila Mortimer arrived fro no information as to the whereabouts of what Major Belwether delicately designated as her "legitimate" But everybody kneas at last to be crossed off and struck clean out, and the ugly history of the winter, now so iavedesired Mortimer, as far as his own particular circle was concerned, was down and out; Leila, accepted as a matter of course without him, ree in her was due to her ht it ell that it had come in time, for she bloomed like a lovely exotic; and her silences and enthusias attitude toward the world first disconcerted, then amused, then touched those who had supposed the a buckler for her foibles and a shield for her caprice

"Gad," said Alderdene, "she's well rid of hi--the rank, rotten weed that he is, sapping the life fro over toward another fellow's bush we thought she was frail in the ste lot of blatherskites!"