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Al of the "Gypsy Trail," Paula eed from her seclusion, and Graham found himself hard put, in the tower roo he could hear snatches of song and opera froreat patio, or the continuous pulse for hours of the piano fro after Dick, devoted his s to work, so that he rarely encountered Paula before lunch

She made announcement that her spell of insoaieties and excursions Dick had to offer her Further, she threatened, in case Dick grudged these personal diversions, to fill the house with guests and teach him what liveliness was It was at this time that her Aunt Martha--Mrs Tully-- returned for a several days' visit, and that Paula resuh, one-seated Stude-baker trap Duddy and Fuddy were spirited trotters, but Mrs Tully, despite her elderliness and avoirdupois, ithout timidity when Paula held the reins

As Mrs Tully told Graham: "And that is a concession I make to no woman save Paula She is the only woman I can trust myself to with horses She has the horse-way about her When she was a child she ild over horses It's a wonder she didn't become a circus rider"

More, much more, Graham learned about Paula in various chats with her aunt Of Philip Desten, Paula's father, Mrs Tully could never say enough Her eldest brother, and older by many years, he had been her childhood prince His ways had been big ways, princely ways--ways that to commoner folk had betokened a streak of s and the s It was this streak that had enabled him to win various fortunes, and with equal facility to lose theold adventure of Forty-nine Hirandfather a Frenchman--a trifle of flotsa the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine

"And once, and once only, in each generation, that French Desten crops out," Mrs Tully assured Grahaeneration, and who but Paula, and in full eneration Though Lute and Ernestine are her half- sisters, no one would iine one drop of the co circus-riding, drifted inevitably to France It was that old original Desten that drew her over"