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Rh thousand dollars to her check, put it aside unanswered.

Still more than that was due her. Its amount could be more than accounted for by preparation for another hunting party from Mombasa to Cairo; or by return of curiosity as to—and therefore the immediate and complete excavation of—the site of some early Assyrian city on whose mounds she might have lunched; or by another attempt—as in that one delirious month when the executor had learned that comment upon his ward's actions was forbidden—to break the bank of a fashionable European gambling place. Another turbine yacht would account for it; another private aeroplane plant, any one of a dozen more such caprices as these; though he knew, however, it would be none of these things which he called