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"Are you going in?" asked Sylvia Then she, too, heard the subdued whirring of a motor from the front of the house, and she looked at Leila as she turned and recrossed the terrace, walking slowly but erect, her pretty head held high

Then Sylvia faced the sea again and presently descended the terrace, crossing the long laard the headland, where Siward stood looking out across the water

Leila, from the music-room, watched her; then she heard Plank's voice, and his step on the stair, and she called out to hiaily: "I am downstairs, thank you How dared you sendwhen he cah, a brilliant colour in her cheeks; and she offered hi the eyes

"Well?" she said, still s, but her scarlet under-lip trembled a little; then: "Yes, you may say what you wish--what I--I wish you to say … There can be no harentle withto re in the hot sand on the tiny crescent beach under the cliffs, listened gravely to Siward's figures, as, note-book in hand, he went over the real-estate problehtfully as he discussed the houses offered

"Twenty by a hundred and two; good rear, north side of the street--next door to the To forty-two-five"

"That is an outrage!" said Sylvia seriously; "besides, I remember there was a wretched cellar, and only a butler's pantry extension I'd much rather have that little house in Sixty-fourth Street, where the Fetherbraynes live--next house on the west, you know Then we can pull it down and build--ant to"

"We won't be able to afford to build for a while, you know," said Siward doubtfully

"What do we care, dear? We'll have s to do, anyway, and what is the use of building?"

"Asover his note-book with a s to live, and open our eyes, silly? Listen: Books, books, books, from top to bottom of the house, that is what I want first of all--except , dear," he said so seriously that for a fraction of a second she was on the verge of taking hi when books furnish sufficient circulation for the flow of soul, dear?" she retorted gravely