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meant to me a surrender, but Cassie
hardly heard the last words. He turned
to me with broad grin.
"She is splendid little actress" said
/ "and much more refined and woman
ly than I expected. Her rejuvenation
is little short of remarkable"
The grin disappeared and he looked
anxiously into my face.
Tell me the truth, Win" he said
gently.
81 will, Cassie-when | know it, How
we'll are you acquainted with the
lady?"
81 was presented to her by the lead
ing man after the play on the second
night of it's run. She came off the stage
with him and they were laughing to-
gether over some private joke of their
own, and seeing me standing there, in
cIuded me in the conversation. She
was affability itself during our chat.
Last week she went with me twice for a
spin in the automobile, and Nelson
says | am the only man she has en-
couraged even to that extent. Forbes
is daffy over her, and he and Rockwell.
the millionaire's son, have both sent
her diamonds, but she returns every
thing, and I saw her speak to Rockwell
last night and shake her head at him.
| suppose you fellows think this is all
very fishy after the unsavory reputa-
ton she left behind her two years ago.
"Oh, no." said Van, waving his hands
airily. Not after seeing her tonight
and realizing that she is an entirely
different woman from the Angela Her
lot l remember"
81 say" Cassie broke out, suddenly,
what did she do that was SO very
outre. Van?"
| "Oh, nothing much. She was only
named as correspondent in two divorce
suits, was known to cut open Blair Nc
Intyre's head with champagne bottle
| in a fit of drunken anger at three a.
m. in her own apartment, and on an
| other occasion was discovered by a
hitherto happily married woman, in
her husbands dressing room, logged
! out in mans attire. That woman did
| not seek refuge in the divorce court.
She set out to win her husband back
again and she did it, no thanks to An
gela HeriOt.'
Cassie grew white.
Either all that is mass OF false
| hoods" said he doggedly, 'or her life
| for the past two years has been so pure
| that all trace of her former degradation
| has vanished"
"You are all wrong, Cassie,"I inter
rupted Some day | shall tell you ex-
actly how"
| From that moment Cassie pinned his
| faith to me- Vanderhof jeered no long
er-on the contrary, he spoke of Miss
Heriot once in awhile and always with
respect, and we three often sat through
the play together, but he was sorry for
Cassie ard Cassie, knowing it, avoided
him. | was all that was left, so l be-
came confident-in-chief to the hero.
Night 0y night the actress climbed
! higher in the affections of the public,
and it was noteworthy that the COM
mon element in the audience grew less,
while the representatives of the first
| families" increased. The press mar
yeled over the change wrought in two
! short years, and was eulogistic, as we'll
| as critical.
turning from the theater, rehashing
the same old subject when he grasped
my arm.
Miss Heriot is in that cab, Win. |
saw her face at the window when IT.
passed the electric light. The second
cab is following hers. What do you
suppose ii rneans?"
Lets find out" said I, fastening my
steps.
"She lives just around. the corner
Cassie went on 81 was intending to
walk past the house"
We turned the corner in time to see
two women leave the first cab and en-
| ter an ordinary brown-stOne house. A
/ man alighted from the second and
| crossing the sidewalk with rather an
uncertain step, disappeared within the
vestibule
"He's drunk" said Cassie, and broke
into a run.
When we reached the house, the
front door stood open and the light
from the hall gas jet streamed out
upon the pavement No one was in
sight We entered, treading softly and
voice guided us to room on the
right.
"Angie" the man was saying thick
ly, 'come here and kiss me. Why 40
you stand there like piece of marble
and pretend not to know me? I'm Nc
Intyre, and you're the same old Angie,
but a deuced sight better looking.
You've eluded me ever since you came
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