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"It won't be cleared up enough to go back to Versailles before dinner,

Sir Nicholas," he said--and coughed--"I was just thinkingso in

froh meant that Burton knows I am dreadfully upset, and that under

the circu to distract me is the lesser of two evils--!

"Ask whom you please," I answered and drank the brandy and soda down

Presently, after half an hour, Burton ca--I had

been sitting in my chair too exhausted even to feel pain meanwhile--

He had telephoned everywhere, and no one was in town, but at last, at

the Ritz, where the concierge knows all my friends, he had been

inforht before, alone--he

had got connected up at her apparteht o'clock, very pleased to dine!' Nina!--A pleasant thrill ran through htly, and the curtains were drahen

Nina, fresh as a rose, cahtedly--and held out both hands

"Nina!--this is a pleasure, you old dear!--now let e has done--"

Nina drew back and laughed!

"Everything, Nicholas!" she said--

A feeling of envy came over me--Jim's ankle is stiff for life--it seems