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Too bad he had kept her waiting so long!


CHAPTER XI

PICTURES IN THE EMBERS
They were back home now.
"Why, Mary has intuitions," laughed Ernestine, when she saw that a fire
had been lighted in the library, and was in just the proper state for
seeing pictures. "A girl who knew we would want a fire has either been in
love or ought to be. At any rate, she knows we are."
"This is the kind of a night when a fire serves artistic purposes only.
You don't need it, so you have to enjoy it all the more."
"Still, these spring evenings are damp," she insisted, defending the
fire. "It doesn't feel at all uncomfortable."
"And looks immense," he added, turning down the gas and pulling up a seat
just right for sitting before the fire.
She leaned over, holding her hand so close to the flame that he wondered
at first what she was doing.
"See!" she cried, "see my ruby in the firelight, Karl! It's just a piece
of it right up here on my hand!"
"And I suppose,"--seeming to be injured--"that during the remainder of my
life, I may play second fiddle to that ring.


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