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144 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFF HIM? thing wrong is all rot, isn’t it?” asked Tracey Harte, who was invited because Mrs. Trevor-Allen was. “ Well, I’m glad of it.”’ “Tracey, remarked the irrepressible young woman, in a tone which could be heard only by the one she addressed, and Mr. Magrane, very attentive upon her, “ you positively must learn how to make love. The way you dispose of our latest and sweet- est morsel of scandal is too charming.” “TI never did believe in the Swiss family story,” boomed a voice like a fog horn at sea, down the table. It belonged to Mr. Starkhite, a solemn-faced bachelor sitting in the seat of honor on the right of Mrs. Deekman. “Nor I, either,” put in Mrs. Deekman, who feared the conversation was taking a tack which would put the subject aside. ‘ But the story of a marriage in Switzerland has more substance, I think.” “Oh, my bell; ringers yet. Do give 11%o Ste cried Mrs. Trevor-Allen. : It was singular that, in view of the fact that Mrs. Trevor-Allen was so irritating, she should be invited everywhere. “T don’t understand your adherence to bell ringers, Mrs. Trevor-Allen,” loftily replied Mrs. Deekman. “Why, do not all the Swiss ring bells?” asked the young woman with great innocence. ‘If they dont, they are nothing to me. Mr. Trescotte’s affairs lose interest if he is not to have a Swiss bell ringer fora wife.” Mr. Magrane, taking no part in the conversation, Comicbooks.€© 3}