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"Paula took ed--the day before, and he had called on me and all that I had known 'Lucky' Richard Forrest, and I knew all about his son From a worldly standpoint, Paula couldn't have e It was quite a romance Paula had seen him captain the University of California eleven to victory over Stanford And the next tiirls She didn't knohether Dick ortha cabaret because he was hard up, and she cared less She always followed her heart Fancy the situation: Dick the uncatchable, and Paula who never flirted They ht into each other's ared, and Dickone way or the other

"But Dick's cabaret It was the Cabaret of the Philosophers--a small pokey place, down in a cellar, in the heart of the Quarter, and it had only one table Fancy that for a cabaret! But such a table! A big round one, of plain boards, without even an oil-cloth, the wood stained with the countless drinks spilled by the table-pounding of the philosophers, and it could seat thirty Women were not permitted An exception was made for Paula and me

"You've met Aaron Hancock here He was one of the philosophers, and to this day he swaggers that he owed Dick a bigger bill that never was paid than any of his custo thinkers, and pound the table, and talk philosophy in all the tongues of Europe Dick always had a penchant for philosophers

"But Paula spoiled that little adventure No sooner were they married than Dick fitted out his schooner, the All Away, and away the blessed pair of the"

"And the cabaret was closed, and the philosophers left hohed heartily and shook her head

"He endowed it for theasped, her hand to her side "Or partially endowed it, or soement was And within the month it was raided by the police for an anarchist club"

After having learned the wide scope of her interests and talents, Graha Paula all by herself in a corner of a -seat, completely absorbed in her work on a piece of fine embroidery