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Burke, grasping the arms of his chair, had started to rise, fury fairly blazing from his eyes; but, at the sound of the Tracer's calm, even voice, he sank back into his chair. "That is Joram Smiles? You recognize him?" continued Mr. Keen. Burke nodded.
"I fully intended going to prayer meeting myself to-night," she said, "but it gets to be a great tax, an evening out of every week, and I do dread the night air so much." Mrs. Judge Hildreth dipped her jeweled fingers into the perfumed water of her finger glass and dried them on her silk-fringed napkin. "Oh, Lawrence, don't forget Judge Tracer's dinner to-morrow night.
"How does all this bear upon what concerns me?" demanded Burke. "Wait!" Something in the quiet significance of the Tracer's brief command sent a curious thrill through the younger man. "That," said Mr. Keen, "is the ancient Egyptian word for 'little, 'Ket. The next, below, written in two lines, is 'Samaris, a proper name the name of a woman.
Then he remembered the Tracer's admonition to acquiesce in everything, do what he was told to do, not to run away, and to pay his court at the first decent opportunity. He had no longer any desire to escape; he was quite willing to do anything she desired. "Do you really want to study me, Dr. Hollis?" he asked, feeling like a hypocrite. "Indeed I do," she replied fervently.
"Of course we do. We're crazy about it. We want one more couple, and you to set the date." There was the slightest pause; then the Tracer's voice, with the same undertone of amusement ringing through it: "How would your cousin, Victor Carden, do?" "He's all right, only he isn't married. We want two people whom you have joined together after hazard has put them asunder and done stunts with them."
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