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Rh before him and can only fuss and fume—my suspicions increase. Well!"

He glanced apprehensively into the glass once more before he drew away. For the first time in his life he was unashamed to recognize that he was tall and well looking and that his features were undeniably straight and good, and his eyes and hair just dark enough to contrast distinctly well with the clean, summer tan which browned his face.

"But decently good looks, of themselves, can't count much with her," he recalled, sobering his first satisfaction immediately. "She is not in the least impressed with her own infinitely finer ones; she just takes them for granted. So why should mine count with her? And certainly because a man may be fairly tall and healthy and tanned is no infallible indication that he may not be—a pilferer!"

He sat considering something very gravely then for an instant. But in a moment he sprang up, chose his coat and stick carefully, and went out.

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