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"A white night," Dick Forrest suruest's benefit, and went into details additional to Bert's of her constitutional inaptitude for normal sleep "Do you knoere married years before I ever saw her sleep I knew she did sleep, but I never saw her I've seen her go three days and nights without closing an eye and keep sweet and cheerful all the time, and when she did sleep, it was out of exhaustion That hen the All Aent ashore in the Carolines and the whole population worked to get us off It wasn't the danger, for there wasn't any It was the noise Also, it was the excite And when it was almost all over, I actually saw her asleep for the first ti, a Donald Ware, whom Graham met at lunch He seemed well acquainted with all, as if he had visited athered that, despite his youth, he was a violinist of note on the Pacific Coast

"He has conceived a grand passion for Paula," Ernestine told Graha room

Graham raised his eyebrows

"Oh, but she doesn'tdoes the sa way of disregarding all their syets the best out of the the same before you're here a week If you don't, we'll all be surprised htily And if you don't, s He's come to expect it as a ets a habit like that, it must hurt terribly to see his wife not appreciated"

"Oh, well, if I ahed "But just the same I hate to do whatever everybody does just because everybody does it But if it's the custohty hard on one with so ht in his long gray eyes that affected Ernestine so profoundly that she gazed into his eyes over long, beca, dropped her own eyes away, and flushed

"Little Leo--the boy poet you reht," she rattled on in a patent attempt to escape from her confusion "He's madly in love with Paula, too I've heard Aaron Hancock chaffing hiuess the inspiration And Terrence--the Irishman, you know--he's mildly in love with her They can't help it, you see; and can you blame them?"