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 ahead or spoke to Dorothy, he took his chance to observe the warm hue of her hair and the clear, agreeable glow of her smooth skin. He liked to watch the line of her profile with her pretty nose, not quite straight but with a slight, impulsive, attractive tilt; it was a nose which shortened, fascinatingly, when she laughed. He kept watching it and her lips which were full and soft and warm-looking and ever changing in expression. "She must have any amount of feeling," Dave said to himself and liked her for it; and he let himself appreciate the vigor of her body and her beauty of form.

He could not help contrasting her, physically, with Dorothy Hess; every one else on the street was contrasting them when they stared at Fidelia Netley and never glanced at Dorothy twice. He was different from being beside Miss Netley; he felt keener from a stimulation which was so definitely from her that he could not deny it.

Also, he was feeling actively free this morning. Of course Fidelia Netley had nothing to do with that. He had brought it to himself by his final break with his father when he took his loan of ten thousand dollars from Mr. Fuller.

Alice had a great deal to do with that. Again he looked for her as he approached the corner of University Place; for she would probably come to college on the electric car this morning, when the streets were so heavy with snow. He saw that a car must have just let out some passengers for several people were hurrying from the direction of the car line toward the