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Rh "I only reached the dock," replied the man, "when I had a letter that recalled me by the first limited." "Oh! Important business?" "The only business of any importance in all the world to me. I'm triumphant that I came. Edith, you are the most superb woman in every respect that I have ever seen. One glimpse is worth the whole journey." "You like my dress?" she moved toward him and turned, lifting her arms. "Do you know what it is intended to represent?" "Yes, Polly Ammon told me. I knew when I heard about it how you would look, so I started a sleuth hunt, to get the first peep. Edith, I can become intoxicated just with looking at you to-night." He half-closed his eyes and smilingly stared straight at her. He was taller than she, a lean man, with close-cropped light hair, steel gray eyes, a square chin and "man of the world" written all over him. Edith Carr flushed. "I thought you realized when you went away that you were to stop that, Hart Henderson," she cried. "1 did, but this letter of which I tell you called me back to start it all over again." She came a step closer. "Who wrote that letter, and what did it contain concerning me?" she demanded. "One of your most intimate chums wrote it. It contained the hazard that possibly I had given up too soon. It said that in a fit of petulance you had broken your engagement with Ammon twice this winter, and he had