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CHAPTER x.-tcontinued.l

CHAPTER x.-(Continued)
On the Saturday morning she went
out betimes. Inquiry at the railway
Office told her that the train which
connected with the branch line to
Rocky Bar did not reach the city till
six in the evening. She ordered din
ner of the choicest viands and spent
part of the morning passing from stall
to stall in the market on Powell Street
spying about for dainties that might
add last celebrating touch to the
lengthy menu. The afternoon was
dedicated to the solemn rites of mas
saging, maniclring, and hair-waving
at a beauty doctors. On an ordinary
occasion these unwonted exertions in
the pursuit of good looks would have
tired her, but to-day she was keyed
to a pitch where she did not notice
small outside discomforts.
Long before six she was dressed,
and sitting before the mirror in her
room she laid on the last perfecting
touches with short stick of hard
Sred substance and a circular piece of
'mossy-looking white stuff, which she
rubbed with a rotary motion round
and round her face. Her new dress of
raspberry pink Grape betrayed the
hand Of an expert in its gracefully
falling folds and the elegance with
which 1t outlined her slim; long-waist-
ed shape. Her artificially-reddened
hair waved back from her forehead in
glossy ripples; her face, all lines and
hollows rubbed from it, looked fresh
and youthful. With the subdued light
falling on her through the silk and
paper lamp shades, she looked a very
pretty woman, the darkness OF her
long, brilliant eyes thrown into higher
relief by the whiteness Of her pow
dered face.
She was tremulously nervous. Ev-
cry sound caused her to start and
move to that part of the parlor whence
she could look down the long pas
sageway to the stair-head. Large
punches of greenery were massed
here in the angles of the hall and
stood in the corners of the sitting
room. Bowls filled with violets and
roses were set on the table and man
,telpiece. and the scent of these flow
'ers, sweet and delicate, mingled with
the crude, powerful perfume that the
womans draperies exhaled with every
movement. At intervals she ran into
her bedroom, seized the little, round
soft wad of white and rubbed it over
her face with quick concentric move
ment, drawing her upper lip down as
!. she did so, which gave to her counte-
nance with its anxious eyes an ex
ceedingly comical expression.
1t was nearly seven o'clock when
the bell rang. With a last hasty lool
in the glass, she ran down the pas
sageway to the stair-head. 1t was
4 necessary to descend a few steps to 9
Y turn on the stairs from whence the
lever that opened the door could be
worked AS she stood on the small
landing, thrown out in bright reiiei
by a mass of dark LEAKAGE that stood
in the angle of the wall, the dool
opened and Dominick entered. He
looked up and saw her standing there
gaily dressed q brilliant, animated
figure, smiling down at him.
An. Berry," he said In quiet. un
emotional voice, "is that you?"
It was certainly not an enthusiastic
greeting A sensitive woman would
have been shriveled by it, but Berny
was not sensitive. She had realized
from the start that she would prob
ably have to combat the lingering sur
liness left by the quarrel AS Domi
nick ascended, her air of smiling vel
come was marked by bland cheer,
Inconsistencies of any past unpleas
antncss. She was not, however, a
unconscious as she looked. She note,
his heaviness Of demeanor, the tire,
expression OF his lifted face He cam
up the stairs slowly. not yet beini
completely recovered, and II added t
the suggestion Of reluctance. of diff
cult and spirltless approach, tha
seemed to encompass him in an ur
seen yet distinctly-felt aura.
AS he rose on q level with her, sh
stretched out her hands and. layin
them on his shoulders. drew hin
toward her and kissed him, Tn
coldness OF his cheek, damp with tn
loggy night air, chilled the cafes
EGd she drew back from him, not S