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girl offered her little gloved hand impulsively, and the two men touched her fingers in turn, taking her into their newly re-established confidence in each other. And she found herself smiling with amusement, but perhaps with a little pride, too, as her eyes followed the erect, alert young figure of the American accompanying the staid, tweed-clad figure of the Briton down the deck.

She turned to her steamer-chair as they disappeared; but as she found the uncertainties of which she was herself a part much more interesting to her just then than those in the book she had been reading, she started up restlessly again to pace the promenade deck alone.

She noted, with an excited little thrill, that 240