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"I have it," she said, gaily, a delicious foreign tinge to the words

"I thank you--" he began, holding out his hand as if in a dream of ecstacy, but her eyes had fallen momentarily on the object of their search

"Oh!" she exclai into her face It was a coin from her faraway homeland, and she was betrayed into the involuntary exclaained her composure and dropped the piece into his outstretched hand, a proud flushto her cheek, a look of cold reserve to her eyes He had, hoped she would offer soe coincidence, but he was disappointed He wondered if she even heard him say: "I am sorry to have troubled you"

She had resumed her seat, and, to hi decidedly uncomfortable and not a little abashed, he left her and strode to the door Again a lass in the car's end He had taken but a half dozen steps when the brown head was turned slyly and a pair of interested eyes looked after him She did not know that he could see her, so he had the satisfaction of observing that pretty, puzzled face plainly until he passed through the door

Grenfall had for his travels, soly bold He had seldoe to say, and as he went to his section dizzily, he thought of the good fortune that had been his in other attempts, and asked himself why it had not occurred to him to make the same advances in the present instance Sonity, that pure beauty, that iht of fa tricked her a few moments before into a perfectly natural departure from indifference She had been so reserved and so natural that he looked back and asked hi show of interest With this, he sone by, all of which had been turned to advantage and had resulted in airl with an air of mystery about her, worthy of his best efforts, but tohom he had not dared to turn a frivolous eye

He took out the coin and leaned back in his chair, wondering where it caood pocket-piece and soraphy than I do" Mr Lorry's own ideas of geography were ju the labels on his hat-box He knew the places he had been to, and he recognized a new country by the annoyances of the custonorance was coht have come from any one of a hundred small principalities scattered about the continent Yet it bothered him a little that he could not tell which one He waswoman--in fact, he was, undeniably interested in her He pleasantly called himself an "ass" to have his head turned by a pretty face, a foreign accent and an insignificant coin, and yet he was fascinated