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The letter ended: "Adieu Nicholas! tu es,

Toujours Mon Adoré

Ta Suzette"

but the way it was folded only showed "Toujours Mon Adoré--Ta

Suzette"--and this much Alathea had certainly seen--

I felt as if there was so to be said or done I could not curse aloud--so I simply took

the letter, put it with Daisy Ryven's--and indicated that I aiting

for the next one to be handed tobe !--and

inopportune--Why must the shadow of Suzette fall upon me all the time?-This of course will make any renewal of even the coldest friendliness

iirl and me-- I cannot ask her totiain, in any case Her attitude, carriage of head, and expression of

mouth, showed contempt, as she finished the short-hand notes And then

she rose and went into the other roo the door after

her

And I lay there shivering with rage and chagrin

I saw no --She had her lunch in the

sitting-rooht the dishes in to me, and after

luncheon he insisted that I should sleep for an hour until half-past two