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It was Mrs Mason who first asked that Paula play; but it was Terrence McFane and Aaron Hancock who evicted the rag-ti a of this pagan that I'm askin' you to play 'Reflections on the Water,'" Graham heard Terrence say to her

"And 'The Girl with Flaxen Hair,' after, please," begged Hancock, the indicted pagan "It will aptly prove -theory of music that predates the cave-man--and he has the unadulterated stupidity to call hihed "Still wrangling over hiet around to hiin"

Dar Hyal joined the three sages in seating Paula at the concert grand which, Grahareat rooes slipped away to ere evidently their chosen listening places The young poet stretched himself prone on a deep bearskin forty feet from the piano, his hands buried in his hair Terrence and Aaron lolled into a cushioned embrasure of aseat, sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their respective contentions as Paula roups on wide couches or garlanded in twos and threes on and in the big koa-wood chairs

Evan Graha Paula's music, but saw in time that Dar Hyal had already elected to hilirand piano, under a low arch at the far-end of the roo board All jollity and banter had ceased Evidently, he thought, the Little Lady had a ith her and was accepted as a player of parts And from this he was perversely prepared for disappointment

Ernestine leaned across fro she wants to do And she doesn't workmuch She studied under Leschetizky and Madame Carreno, you know, and she abides by their methods She doesn't play like a woman, either Listen to that!"

Graham knew that he expected disappointment from her confident hands, even as she rippled them over the keys in little chords and runs hich he could not quarrel but which he had heard too often before from technically brilliant but ht have fancied she would play, he was all unprepared for Rachmaninoff's sheerly masculine Prelude, which he had heard only men play when decently played