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Ernestine rashly laid ten cents, and scarcely knehether she won or lost, so intent was she on watching Grahaht had not been unobservant of her gaze and its direction On the other hand, neither she nor Bert, nor any other at the table, knew that Dick's quick-glancing eyes, sparkling with merriment while his lips chaffed absurdities that h, had missed no portion of the side play

Ernestine, but little taller than Paula, although hinting of a plus roundness to come, was a sun-healthy, clear blonde, her skin sprayed with the alhteen To the eye, it seeh the pink daintiness of fingers, hand, wrist, and forearm, neck and cheek And to this delicious transparency of rose and pink, was added a warlith of roouess, though the terms of it were beyond his divination

What she sahat she iht, blooded carriage of his head, the delightful carelessness of the gold-burnt, sun-sanded hair that ers ache to be into with caresses she for the first ti an interval of discussion with the violinist in which she did not desist fro her criticism of O'Hay's latest criticism of Harold Bauer, fail to see and keep her eyes on Graharace of ht poise of head, the careless hair, the clear bronze of the sray eyes with the hint of drooping lids and boyish sullenness that fled before the sreeted her

She had observed that s with hihted the eyes with the radiance of good fellowship and that crinkled the corners into tiny, genial lines It was provocative of s in return as she continued stating to Ware her grievance against O'Hay's too-coement was tacitly with Donald Ware at the piano, and with nospeech, she was off and away in a series of Hungarian dances that made Graham marvel anew as he loafed and smoked in a -seat

He marveled at the proteanness of her, at visions of those ni and paddling in subh forty feet of air, locking just above the water toarch of arm