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"I know!" she said--"He is a god!"

Saod! Oh, these wood!" she repeated, nodding again, co! I feel that all the time He could rule the whole world!"

Gwent's nerves "juer Seaton's oords--"I'll be ly on his brain with an unco threads of his co

"That's all nonsense!" he said, as gruffly as he could--"He's not a god by any means! I'm afraid you think too ently--"Manella Soriso"

"Thank you!" and Gwent sought for a helpful cigar which he lit--"You have a very char name! Yes--believe me, you think too much of him!"

"You say that? But--are you not his friend?"

Her tone was reproachful

But Gas now nearly his norain

"No,--I a word,--it implies more than most men ever mean I just know him--I've met him several times, and I knoorked for a while under Edison--and--and that's about all Then I THINK"--he was cautious here--"I THINK I've seen him at the house of a very wealthy lady in New York--a Miss Royal--"

"Ah!" exclaimed Manella--"That is the name of the fairy wo her

"She, too, is very clever,--she is also an inventor and a scientist--and if it was she who came here--(I daresay it was!) it was probably because she wished to ask his advice and opinion on sos she studies--"

Manella snapped her fingers as though they were castanets

"Ah--bah!" she exclai takes a woht, all in soft white and dia at all, except to tein to learn! And you, if you are not his friend, what are you here for?"

Gwent began to feel impatient with this irrepressible "prize" beauty

"I came to see him at his own request on business;" he answered curtly--"The business is concluded and I go away to-morrow"