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fé for his belated breakfast. Impatient to finish the meal so that he might haste to the promised interview, he studied the menu, and with his eye scouted the room for a waiter-failing to bestow even the slightest glance on a man seated opposite. This fact, however, did not prevent the stranger from

st as a marble-cutter falls short of being a sculptor. You were quoting Love Am

great white brows, and his mouth was hidden under a snowy mustache. His features made up for a somewhat marked poverty of shape by a luxuriance of ruddy color, the culminating point of which was to be found in the broad and fleshy nose. His voice, soft and gentle when he began, sw

t!" exclaimed Amido

bout the past five years, and Jennie Baggs keeping a place for you every meal for all this time, up to the present hour? I tell you, Florian, letting me down in that case of Amidon versus Catt

l, then, J

r, and the mother of two infants, can be. But why do you ask?-why do you

Florian. "Good for Je

Baggs court of inquiry is going to switch me off the examination I'm now conducting; and I tell you,

guage as the medium of communication, is known as the danger-signal the world ov

the motion to strike that out, the question remains. You aren't oblige

or what I have been doing, since June twenty-seventh, 1896, until yesterday morning whe

g in the manner of a jurist considerin

e with me, and let's find out. There may be complications; I may need you

said the judge. "We

midon his story. He dropped back to previous parts of the narrative, and elicited repetitions. He slurred over crucial po

Your story hangs together as no fiction could. To believe you, brands us both as lunatics. Come on and let's see what your mesmerist frauds have t

presence of Madame le Claire, now gowned appropriately for the morning, and looking-extraordinary, it is true, with her p

Mr. Amidon's friend and legal adviser

ion is psychical, nod beguniary. Howefer, if you are interested

ted to specialize) in senile and paretic dementia, since I had the honor to represent the proponents in t

iendt Herr Amidon avokened in a car after fife years of lostness; he has anodder man's dotes, anodder man's dicket, letters-unt all. He gomes to Madame le Claire ant Blatherwick. H

norted t

Amidon; "tell

ur veeks after you left Elm Springs

es of it-I can't get that very plainly-on a farm at Bunn's Ferry, Pennsylvania; and bought an option o

' financially?" int

principal men of the town, socially and in a business way. He didn'

aid the professor, fil

levale career out in Hazelhurst, if he's so prominent? We read, out

le Claire, "in Bellevale

cried Amidon.

restrained him wi

e Brassfield

e professor gleefully, "your own

ng. He withdrew his hand, holding in it a letter, a

manner, "it's yours. It's from Miss Elizabet

ll you get mad when I speak of

life," was the reply; "so how ca

ity, you are:-Gott im Himmel, you are stuck on her, stuck on her-not, Clara? Vas he not gracey? Only Clara

le Claire coldly. "And please excuse me. I hope to see you b

ought. Sometimes his face burned with blushes, sometimes it paled with anxiety. His eyes ran over the letter full of sweet ardors; and wh

e hotel, the judge was i

s with yours. When I went to the telephone, up there, I called up Stacy and Stacy's and asked 'em to get me Dun's and Bradstreet's report on

Amidon. "Do you kno

gs I referred to

ng of her feelings. And if I go back to Bellevale-my God, Judge, how can I go back, and take my place in a society where every one knows me, and I know nobody; and be a lo

cy and Stacy," said a m

the envelope, and read

much at Bellevale as you have at Hazelhurst. And, as you say, the lady has claims. As an honorable man-an engaged man, who has received the plighted troth of a