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 in regard to New York, much as he had imparted it to her last night.

"So I'll be located East," he concluded, coolly, shaking hands.

He left no doubt, as he parted from Mr. Rountree and Jay, that he felt no regrets over the distance he was to put between them. He shook hands also with Ellen, but his fingers admonished hers very differently.

"Have you ever seen New York?" he asked her, ignoring last night.

"Never," she repeated her reply.

"That's an answer you can change."

Jay said to Ellen, when they were left alone: "I wish I could see my brother-in-law liking Lew; or Lew, him. But I've had them together; they look upon each other like a pot of poison."

Ellen remained silent, though inwardly she seethed with her secret.

"Speaking of Mr. Armiston," she said, as though he had reminded her of the matter, "I might like it with him in New York, A little later," she qualified hastily.