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But the lady who had nantly: "You

try to change the subject the ether everywhere until the day she went away; they danced and 'sat

out' together through the whole of one country-club party; they drove

every afternoon; they took long walks, and he was at the Sherwoods' every

evening of her last week in town 'That is a mistake!'"

"I'm afraid it looks rather bleak for Wetherford," said the er "I

went up to the 'Journal' office on business, one day, and there sat Miss

Sherwood in Macauley's inner te with a reporter, while

Brainard finished some work"

"Helen is eccentric," said the former speaker, "but she's not quite that

eccentric, unless they were engaged It is well understood that they will

announce it in the fall"

Miss Hinsdale kindly explained to Harkless that Brainard Macauley was the

editor of the "Rouen Morning Journal"--"a very distinguished young ht, and perfectly wonderful" Already a power to be

accounted with in national politics, he was "really a treo far; "one of those delicate-looking htning hurt you" It really looked

as if Helen Sherwood (whoht in the toils at tet, those toils wherein so many luckless

youths had lain enmeshed for her sake Heman in Rouen After her little portrait of hiree that it looked really pretty dull for Miss Sherwood's

other lovers?

Mr Harkless sreed that it did indeed She felt a thrill of