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feared she might question him. =
All right! ‘ Her heart ached, but she forced a smile.”
thought that it was the loss of that ‘‘ other woman ” which
. _ think I remember how you like it.”’.
good tea, Vi.’’? ~ }
.. The color mounted to her face at the sound of the famil-
“Did I? It is about the only thing I:can do properly.”’:
. Scandalof the five o’clock teas, pleasant.chat, to which he
teacup in his hand, and marveling in a dreamy fashion at
-. the faithfulness of women.
most devoted and steadfast. It was wonderful!
a curious kind of way.
smites them. There is no heart so tender, no sympathy
80 sure as that of a woman. pS oe
‘© Oh, woman, in our hours of ease. (
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please— Ce
~ When pain and anguish wring the brow, 4
A ministering angel thou!” a :
De this time! he thought, and under the impulse of his self-
|. ‘Yeproach he felt inclined to tell her all. |
_ Some story she was telling him. —
_, den light in her eyes, a light of hope and expectancy.
‘T want to tell you,’’ he said, passing his hand across
ou may have heard something of it from Austin—~ »
| From ‘Austin Ambrose?” she said. ‘‘ No. Why should
i - he tell me?’
_ have had a rough time of it—a very rough time of it, I
had wrought such havoc with him. | “ Here is your tea; I.
“It is first rate,’’ he said. ‘You always used to make, .
_. This girl—the most hunted heiress in London, pretty, — -
accomplished, every way desirable, whom he had neg-" —
lected, almost deserted—received him as if he had been.
“Vi,” he said, abruptly, breaking into the middle of:
“Well?” she said, turning her face to him, with a sud- _
is brow, ‘you know I have been in. trouble lately.
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ght now,” he added, quickly, as ifhe..
_-.." You'don’t take any care of yourself, Blair,” she said, ~
. lightly, though her soul was filled with bitterness at the
_jJar name. How long it was since she had heard him use it.. ioe
Then she went on talking in a light and cheerful'tone,
_ the sort of talk that exacts almost nothing.from the list-) |
ener—gossip about places and people he knew, the last 9. |
be could listen or not, just as he chose. And Blair.did not —
listen all the time, but sat looking at the fire, with his ©
His heart smote him, and he felt drawn toward. her in,
After all, it is to the women men go when trouble | ~
What a brute ‘he had been not to come near her all: |
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