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In the afternoon she went driving with Princess Yetive and the young

Duke of Mizrox, upon whose innocent and sufficiently troubled head she

was heaping secret abuse because of the news he brought Later, Count

Marlanx appeared at the castle for his first lesson in poker He looked

so sure of himself that Beverly hated hier to learn howover her head, veiled by its

ridiculous shadow of h by this time to

feel convinced that Baldos would have to account for his temerity,

sooner or later It was like the cat and the helpless mouse

"It's too hot," she protested, when he announced hiame "Nobody plays poker when it's 92 in the shade"

"But, your highness," complained the count, "war may break out any

day I cannot concede delay"

"I think there's a gaested she

serenely "It seeood for

warriors You could be shooting so all the time"

He went away in a decidedly irascible frame of mind She did not know

it, but Baldos was soon afterward set to work in the garrison stables, a