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Nor did Grahaine that Dick--the keen one, the deep one, who could see and sense things yet to occur and out of intangible nuances and glis build shrewd speculations and hypotheses that subsequent events often proved correct--was already sensing what had not happened but what nificant words at the hitching post; nor had he seen Graham catch her in that deep scrutiny of hi, seen little, but sensed ue hat she afterward had co he had to build on was the night, ie, when he had not been unaware of the abrupt leaving of the piano after the singing of the "Gypsy Trail"; nor when, in careless s of the, had he failed to receive a hint or feeling of so face On the ood as she sent, Dick's own laughing eyes had swept over Graham beside her and likewise detected the unusual The , had been Dick's ? Was there any connection between his overstrungness and the sudden desertion by Paula of the piano? And all the while these questions were slipping through his thoughts, he had laughed at their sallies, dealt, sorted his hand, and won the bid on no trumps

Yet to himself he had continued to discount as absurd and preposterous the possibility of his vague apprehension ever being realized It was a chance guess, a silly speculation, based upon the ely concluded It merely connoted the attractiveness of his wife and of his friend But--and on occasionalupper that evening? Why had he received the feeling that there was so?

Nor did Bonbright, one ram in the last hour before noon, know that Dick's casual sauntering to the , still dictating, had been caused by the faint sound of hoofs on the driveway It was not the first of recent lance out with apparent absentness at the rush of therails But he knew, on this ht whose those figures would be