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"Will people know my real name?"

"No--we shall tell no stories, but we shall not be colish friend of the Duchesse's"

She looked at ratitude in her

expression

"Alathea, I want you to forget all about the troubles which must have

clouded your life They are all over now, and some day, perhaps you will

introduce me to your mother and little sister"

"I will, of course when they come back from the South My mother has

often been so ill"

"I want you to feel that I would do anything for them Are you sure they

have all they want?"

She protested

"Indeed--yes, far iven too much already"

She raised her head with that indescribable little gesture of hauteur,

which becomes her so beautifully I could read herfroround!"

When ent into the salon I wondered what she would do I did not

speak She took reat care not

to touch me I could not look up I knew that a powerful electric

current would pass from my eye to hers, if I did, and that she would see

that I was only longing to take her to azed into the fire She sat down quietly on the