In Sight of St. Paul's — page 27: what you’re looking at

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2 A DANGEROUS BEAUTY. tween two duelists .just before the swords ' were crossed. | : It was only for an instant, and before Tom teally realized the significance of the glance, Mis. Dell’s whole manner had changed. As has been intimated befote, she was a superb actress, and she had decided at once the -part she would play, at least in the beginning of the impend- ing’ encounter. _ “Mr. Chichester, why do you dislike Ine so much ??” she asked, with a suddenness which was absolutely startling. For an instant Tom was completely taken aback. | ‘“‘T—really———’’ he stammered. ‘‘You are mis- taken.”’ ; ‘No, Iam not,’’ replied Cynthia, with the utmost ‘decision, and yet cleverly allowing asoupcon of. re- eret to creep into her tone. ‘‘But,’’ with a sigh, ‘‘as you will not be candid with me, I will with you. You dislike me because you are afraid of me.’’ Blunt as the words were, and in a certain sense true, as Tom well knew, there was nothing agores- sive in either the tone or the manner of the woman who spoke them. On the contrary, her whole atti- _ tude was one of sorrow and appeal. She moved closer to him, her gold-colored robes gleaming under the black shower of her laces. Her scarlet, pomegranate-like lips, the rich flush on her GEomicbooks co _