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ure to go parking along the bride
paths of Central Park For myself, I
want a hill country and something
like forty miles, straight away; that's
riding
The fact that l knew no one but
Teddy added zest to the inspiration
which had seized me. For / deter
mined to attend that dance, happen
what might 1t would be vastly more
entertaining than a possibly dull the
atrical performance. Ut wash
/ called for a messenger and dis
patched him to the nearest drug store
for a pack of playing cards; and
while waited for his return / casu-
ally glanced at the other diners. At
my table-one of those long marble
topped affairs by the wall-there was
an old man reading a paper, and the
handsomest girl | had set eyes upon
in month of moons. Sometimes the
word handsome seems an inferior adj
Jective. She was beautiful, and her
half-hidden eyes told me that she was
anywhere but at Mouquin's. What
head of hair! Fine as a spiders web,
and the dazzling yellow of a wheat
field in a sun showerl The irregu-
larity of her features made them all
the more interesting. l was an artist
in an amateur way, and l mentally
painted in that head against a Rubens
background. The return of the mes
senger brought me back to earth; for
l confess that my imagination had
already leaped far into the future, and
this girl across the way was nebulous-
ly connected with It,
l took the pack Of cards, ripped of
the covering. tossed aside the joker
Though, really, I ought to have re-
tanned IT'D and began shutting the
shiny pasteboards. I dare say that
those around me sat up and took no
( tice. 1t was by no means a common
sight to see a man grayely shutting a
pack Of cards in a public restaurant
Nobody interfered, doubtless because
nobody knew exactly what to do in
/ the face of such an act, for which no
adequate laws had been provided. A
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the table, scratching his chin thought
/ fully, wondering whether he should
report this popularity of constitution
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ster), synonymous with idiocrasy and
known as idiosyncrasy. It was quite
possible that / was the first man to
establish such a precedent in Monsieur
Mouquin's restaurant. Thus, / aroused
only passive curiosity
From the corner of my eye I OBJ
served the old gentleman opposite
He was peering over the top of his
paper, and l could see by the glitter in
ais eye that he was a confirmed player
of solitaire. The girl, however, still
/ appeared to be in a dreaming state.
have no doubt every one who saw
me thought that anarchy was abroad
again, or that Sherlock Holmes had
entered into his third incarnation.
Finally I squared the pack, took a
long breath, and cut. 1 turned up the
card 1t was the ten-spot of hearts.
I considered this most propitious,
hearts being my long suit In every
thing but love,-love having not yet
crossed my path. 1 put the card in
my wallet, and was about to toss the
rest of the pack under the table, when
a woman's voice stayed my hand.
Don't throw them away. Tell my
fortune first"
I looked up. not little surprised
II was the beautiful young girl who
had spoken. She was leaning on her