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"Heavens! they had their own royal yacht, their mountain house, their canoe house--the last a veritable palace in itself I know I have been at great feasts in it--though it was after their time No of collateral line was the ruler

"I told you he out-barbaricked her Their dinner service was gold-- Oh, what's the use in telling any lish, half-Polynesian, and a really and truly queen They were flowers of their races They were a pair of wonderful children They lived a fairy tale And well, Ernestine, the years have passed, and Evan Graha It will be a remarkable woman that will ever infatuate hih he didn't wastrel hiselse"

"Paula would be more his kind," Ernestine said reed "Paula, or any woman as remarkable as Paula, would attract hi, lovely things like you in the world We oldsters have our standards, you know"

"And I'll have to put up with the youngsters," Ernestine sighed

"In the , always, that you, too, in tirow into the remarkable, mature woman, who can outfoot a man like Evan in a foot-race of love for possession"

"But I shall be ood fortune, ry with me?"

She smiled pathetically and shook her head, put up her lips to be kissed, then said as they parted: "I prory if you will only show raybeards like you and Grahahts as he went, penetrated the library, and, while selecting half a dozen reference volumes on mechanics and physics, smiled as if pleased with himself at recollection of the intervieith his sister-in-law He was confident that he had spoken in time and not a moment too soon But, half way up the book-concealed spiral staircase that led to his work roo in his consciousness, ainst the wall--"Paula would be more his kind"