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"You see I prefer your intellectual conversation to any of my friends!" I told Alathea. Alathea's cheeks were a bright pink. "It is not that," her tone was sarcastic, "so much as that you probably have a sense of tenue, as the Duchesse says. After a little while you will not have to observe it so strictly," and she rose from her chair and went to the window.

To-night I am engaged. But I shall see you soon." "Est il vrai ce mensonge-la?" Coralie said this loud! I put up my hand so as to be able to continue observing Alathea's face. It was the picture of disgust and resentment. "Yes, it is perfectly true, Coralie Bon soir." In a temper, one could gather, Coralie put the receiver down! And I laughed aloud.

"Remember," she said, warningly, "three and no more!" "Yes, yes," he granted. "I must save the other one." It was difficult to sip it, for Miss Alathea's juleps were like nectar to his thirsty palate, but he restrained himself and drank of this last ambrosial glass with great deliberation, trying to make it last as long as possible.

Impressed and touched by the sympathy in the horseman's tone and the interest in Miss Alathea's eyes, Madge told with even greater force and more effect than when she had related it to Layson the story of the tragedy which had robbed her at a blow of father and of mother, the black, dreadful tale of merciless assassination which had left her orphaned in the mountains.

Not of course that I shall spend the rest of my life as Alathea's husband-in-name-only, hungry and longing and miserable but that after securing her certain companionship I shall overcome her prejudices, conquer her aversion, and make her love me.

Then I got up and hobbled into the salon to get the "Last Poems," the door was open, why I don't know, nor do I know what impelled me to go out into the passage and towards Alathea's room, some powerful magnet seemed to draw me. The carpets are very deep and soft, no noise of footfalls can be heard. I crept near the door and stopped. What was that faint sound? I listened, yes it was a sob.

Miss Alathea's dignity forsook her. "Colonel," she confessed, "I couldn't wait to hear the result." "No more could I," he somewhat sheepishly admitted. "But I didn't enter the race-track," she explained in haste. "I was equally firm." "And Neb told me of this knot-hole." "The rascal he told me of it, too." "Colonel," she said, smiling, "we must forgive each other.

So that the only thing I could possibly allure her by would be that intangible something which Nina and Suzette and even Coralie have inferred that I possess "It"!! . And how would that translate itself to a mind like Alathea's? It might mean nothing to her It probably would not.

"My boy," said the Colonel, "the odds are far too heavy a million against the mare. You can't stand 'em." "Oh, Frank," said his Aunt, impulsively, "if you'll only take the money and give up racing!" He laughed. Miss Alathea's strong prejudice against the race-tracks was proverbial. "So that's what you're after!" he exclaimed. "You dear old schemer!"

I did not move or speak, indeed I lit a cigarette casually. Alathea's face was a study! I watched her lazily. How had I ever thought her plain? Even in those first days, disguised with the horn spectacles, and the tornback hair, the contour of her little face is so perfectly oval, and her neck so round and long, but not too long.