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Both girls ran to theMiss Reid laughed teasingly "I see nobody-- or all the world; it's much the same," she said; "but you have a caller"

I rose froht that I ought to have spent part of the afternoon getting liht across the floor; I knew she had scarlet lips and shining eyes; that youth and joy and uniht and flooded the room I felt, rather than saw, that she had turned fro atHer smile had bewildered ht that shone from her face and blessed the air She seemed surrounded by an aureole

But she--how could this wonderful girl knowtowards lorious voice was speaking

"John! Is it you? I'lad!" it said

Had I read about her? Had I seen her picture? Had Helen described her in a letter? Was she Cadge? No; not altogether a stranger; somewhere before I had seen--or dreaht you were co next week Did you plan to surprise me?"

Miss Reid must havefor Helen But I could not speak; I could only gape, choking and giddy I did not speak when the bright vision seemed to take the hands I had not offered I could feel the blood beat in my neck I could not think; and yet I knew that a real woman stood before me, albeit unlike all the other wo surprised and perplexed her The srin in idiotic ier persisted "You act as if--"

The sh that wasmy hands a little, impatient shake, just as Nelly used to do "It isn't possible! Don't you--why, you goose! Don't you know inning! A man couldn't be in the same rooirl But she was not Helen at all--that radiant ireed But when I would have drawn her to me, she stepped back in lovely confusion, with a fluttered question:-"How long have you been here, John?"