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WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XLIII.

Sybil drew away, but he held her, in the circle of his arms.

"Oh, John!" Prayerfully she be sought him. "Not now-don't ask me now, John. It's been such a long, long time. So much bas hap- pened. How can I tell?"

His arms about her tightened, and he kissed her hair as he had done so many times before.

"You've bobbed it, dearest!" he

accused her.

He held her away again, and, looking up, she saw that his fore head was wrinkled as though hej were puzzled.

"It's that odour," he said surpris- ingly.

"""Odour,*" she repeated stupidly.

"What odour?"

"The stuff you use on your hair," he told her, and pulled his eye brows together perplexedly. What "You tised

is it?"

"Verbens," she said. to like it."

John closed his eyes tightly so, that they made a erinkly furrow And furthe memory drew her shirts tantalizingly

pcross his

senses.

"It was a girl in Paris," he said at list. She used that same aluff. Girl at Maxim's. Something about her reminded me of some body. But I didn't know what it was--or reho it was. She drove me almost crazy. I used to sit and watch her and listen to her. One night--she was a cocotte you see, Sybil- and this night she asked me to buy her a drink. I stood there, sturing like å fodland all of a sudden I got giddy. I didn't know

what it was, ... God, Sybil-don't you see-that girl had on verbena too!"

John passed, his hand over his forehead.

}

"I can smell her now. Verbena,

..That's what it was." "Poor darling." Sybil Look his thin checks between her palms, and drawing his head down, put her lips to his hair. She reminded you of me, I suppose, only you couldn't know,"

VAn odun,' he said brokenly. "Like a breatly from the past.”

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"Then," she whispered, “all, the things you loved me for are gone? And all the lovely dreams are dead. championship of Europe, the French-

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"He looked at her so intently that she felt embarrassed, as if being disillusioned was like being pock- marked.

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"Don't you roud the papers?" she demanded. "If you knw Sika pame in print, wouldn't it have meant anything to you?"

peur et sans reproche," she re-usly. minded him. "You've probably changed a good deal yourself.”

"Oh, yes," he agreed. "Men do, you know, I've been a bit of an egg. He smiled ruefully. "But it's different, somehow, with a woman.”

"Why, I think you're horrid! Anybody'd think—” She drew back from his shoulder, and settled her short skirts primly.

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I knew there was something.", The door swung open noiselessly, he repeated, "but I couldn't quite and Mahel advanced upon them. Iny hold of it. I sort of thought it with a trap, in her outstretchied was her hands. She kind of flut-handa. ered them. You know the way "I couldn't knock," she apolo- some girls do, when they talk. gized. "Fldn't have a hand left, "I used to wonder, if those white It's awfully convenient, having a hands of hers held the averet of all for that doesn't catch. You sim- I'd forgotten... I don't remum-ply kick it when you've got your ber of having been conscious of any, hands fall? scent about her. But now it all comes back. I can eloxo, my eyes, and see her sitting there..

John took the tray and placed it on a little red table that rubbed incquered sides fraternally with a She always wore black. French painted fireplace screen. There was women do mostly, you know. Her fragrant coffee in a silver pot, and hair was sort of goldy-blenched, wafers freighted with toasted I suppose. And it used to kind of marshmallows oozing temptingly. slip out from under her hat. She'd On the centre of the tray was sit there, toying with a glass, and green bowl with purple anemones smiling quietly.. Sometimes in it. And the little cigarette trays thought it was, her amile

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