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"Graustark"

But the youngin unconscious accord

"Are you sure that you saw the young lady on board?"

"Well, rather!" exclai to say there are a lot of Italian and Gerht have been e that your friends are not on the list"

So Lorry went away discouraged and with a vague fear that she enslocker but whose stage na ht and the fear She was certainly not an opera singer--impossible! He drove back to his hotel, andcasually over the register he caenslocker! There were the naenslocker and four, Graustark" Without hesitation he began to question the clerk

"They sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm to-day;" said that worthy "That's all I know about them They came yesterday and left to-day"

Mr Grenfall Lorry returned to Washington as in a drearown from the first was now an impenetrable wall, the top of which his curiosity could not scale Even his fancy, his iination, served him not There was but one point on which he was satisfied: he was in love His own condition was no mystery

Several weeks later he went to New York to question the Captain of the Wilhel to clear away the clouds satisfactorily To his aenslockers on board nor had there been persons answering the description, so far as he could tell

Through the long hot summer he worked, and worried, and wondered In the first, he did little that was satisfactory to himself or to his uncle; in the second, he did so much that he was advised byhis physician to take a rest; in the last, he indulged himself so extensively that it had become unbearable He must know all about her? But how?

The early months of autumn found him pale and tired and indifferent alike to work and play Ha found no pleasure in the society that had known him as a lion Women bored him; men annoyed hi his te The doctor told hi nervous prostration; his er be denied, so he realized grimly that there was but one course left open to him