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She comes to see her You have no doubtday she caiven her at Monte Carlo as a good-bye present I aain"

"Is this true?" She was breathless

That htily

"Mademoiselle la Blonde," and her lips curled "She came in while you

were at St Malo She inferred you had not parted then!"

"That was because she was jealous, and is very teht that quality was confined to her class"

I too can hit hard when I a to realize that she was at a

disadvantage

"You are not unutterably shocked that I should have had a--friend, are

you?"

Her face grew contemptuous

"No, my father had one Men are all beasts"

"They may be in the abstract, but are not when they can find a woman

worth love and respect"