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Tuesdaybefore breakfast They told , but I'ht have expected I couldn't have supposed that in my presence people would be stocks and stones!

But oh, it was beautiful, terrible! How can I write it? If I could only flash last night--every glorious ht have lost it--they didn't want to let o! There was a full fah the cancelling of our half engage to the Opera

"If you prefer that--" he said; "but do you think it wise to appear in such a public place with strangers?"

"But why not?"

I was impatient at so much discussion and discretion My mind was made up

"There's no reason why you shouldn't, I suppose" John drew a great sigh "But I shall feel easier if--I think I'll go too"

"We'll all go," cried Aunt Frank--it was so funny to have the in that way the problee and I, and especially Ethel"

And so, when the great night came, Milly and I left the others in the midst of their preparations, and went off to dine with Mrs Van Dani's "Christofero Colombo"

It seems impossible now, but I was excited even about the dinner I thought it the beginning of recognition--and it was!--to be seized upon by this splendid,General

She lives not far from us--on Sixty-seventh Street near Fifth Avenue, while we are on Seventy-second Street near Madison The wall of her house near the ground looks like that of a fortress; there are no high steps in front, but Milly and I were shown into a hall, oak finished and English, right on the street level; and then into a roolish, too--oak and red leather, with branching horns above the ; and, presently, into a little brocade- lined elevator that took us to Mrs Van Daht to see the whole house," Milly whispered, as ere slowly ascending

I had eyes just then for nothing but the General herself, whodress, her neck and hair a-glitter with jewels, more dominant and possessive and---yes, even more interested in me than when I had first seen her