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 '1'm afraid :,lIa will" the Eoy @l5om- fly replied. lies get some l Il of l drag on her. He's been trying U get her, oh, a long time.''
 Raymond's voice was calm as he ask ed, What is his business:''
 Lawyer. Hes rich too. Ann wants us both to come over to the kcl!ya' to dinner I don't want to go. Do you"
 She's the captain" answered Ray mond. 'I reckon we'd better spruce up a bit"
 ''It makes me tired,' the boy went on. T wanted her to marry you, and then we could all live out Lare.'
 A half hour later Ann knocked. ''Is any one at home?'
 Raymond flung open the door. "We a.e all at home.'
 Ann introduced Peabody, who stood l by her side. and the two men shook hands rather coldly while she said to Raymond Gan you take care of Mir. Peabody for the night, and will you come over to dinner? You need have no more scruples, now that Woo is l with us."
 At the dinner table Ann studied the two men with highly amused interest. Peabody, easy, assured and calmly tol- erant, did the talking, while Raymond listened, little sullenly it seemed to Ann. The New Yorker was most ad- mirable in his consideration for Mrs. Kelly and his interest in everything about him, and yet he did not stir the one he hoped to please. He had always been commonplace to her and was con- spicuously so here on the mountain top.
 Peabody did not attempt to conceal his intimate relationship with Ann. and every tone of his voice when addressing her was torture to Raymond. who be- 1 gan to talk at last in self defense, ad 1 dressing himself to Mrs. Kelly as his hostess, leaving Ann free to listen un- reservedly to her eastern suitor. The girl understood this mood in Rob, and it touched her.
 As they all re-entered the bungalow Peabody rubbed his hands together in delight. "By love. this is something like! This chimney carries me back to my hunting lodge in the Maine woods" He was in the midst of story when knock at the door an nounced visitor.
 Come in!' shouted Raymond. and Munro entered, entirely at his ease, graceful, jocose, making no account of the looks of surprise on the faces of Raymond and his guests.
 Remain where you are!" he called. ''The house is entirely surrounded and no nonunion laborer will be allowed to escape"
 Raymond mechanically gave him chair, while Kelly nodded curtly. Ann bowed and said, Good evening, Cap tain Munro"
 1 Peabody alone smiled. "Ah, you were my guide up the hill! My guard as we'll as guide, take it.''
 "Td rather have been your execu- tioner."
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 Had I known you were coming to get the queen of the peak your blood had stained the heather"
 Good heavens, what an escape! Am I quite safe now" he asked of Kelly.
 This fooling over, they took seats, and the conversation ran to the pros poets of the camp, and Peabody, with feeling that Kelly was the man of richest experience, persuaded him to tell something of his wonderful career as a trailer of golden pathways.
 Raymond sat in silence, while Ann awoke to a delicious excitement in the situation. Before her sat three very direct and forceful lovers regarding each other like tigers, instinct with hate, yet masking it, pretending to honor and good will while bitter jeal- ousy ragged beneath. She provoked 1 Munro to the most audacious sayings merely to see Peabody stare, and she flung an appealing word at Raymond now and again as if valuing his opin- ion above all othess, though he made but curt answers, returning to his fire mystifled by her gayety and by her subtlety of byplay. Munro, so far from being depressed by Peabcdy's pres ence, was carried quite beyond his usual self, and his reckless compliments had keen ea-a. In the end Ann re-