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40 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE, though she is sorry already that she acted so out- rageously. What a confounded pretty compound of all the vices, too; but Iam decidedly glad to be rid of her at last.”’’ | In the meantime. Irene Trainer was hurrying along the street, and anathematizing, in her blind fashion, Theo and all his connections, and plotting a fit return for what she called his faithlessness. As she was crossing a dark alley she almost ran — against the figure of a man walking in the opposite direction, and as the latter muttered a hasty apology _ she lost sight of her anger sufficiently to recognize the tones as belonging to Stark. “Oh, it 1s you, is it?”’ she said, sharply. ‘‘Going to see your dupe, I suppose?”’ “Hello, my fair sovereign,’’ after assuring himself by a searching glance that he was not being ob- served. ‘‘What brings the fair-Queen to this local- ity to-night?” ‘The city is free to me, is it not?’’ “As long as you conduct yourself properly, but | what has happened, Queenie? Your eieeeton seems to be out of order.’’ “Don’t be a fool, Julian Stark. This is no laugh- ing matter.” ‘Indeed! but pray do not be so boisterous in tone: some curious passer-by might catch the drift of your words, and be attracted hither.”’ “Yes, and discover the saintly Stark in colloquy with a suspicious character. ”’ | “Oh, no; not so bad as that. You are generally considered a very respectable woman, with a some- what unusual proclivity toward liveliness of man- me oner.” foo. hank vou I Heel judge, however, that if » »comicbooks.co