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Following the semicircle of the bay, the eye co's Palace shuts itself in austerely at the very

center of the arc Through the clustered, tea-sipping loungers on the

galleries and terraces Benton

the studiously affected unconcern of the tourist; an unconcern which he

found it desperately difficult to assu and intense desire to put distance between himself

and all alien hu street

which ran twisting between toy-houses and vine-cuht to be called a street and became merely

a narrow, trail-like path up the mountain-side The wanderer cliht of destination and satisfied hi

His heart pounded faster as he attained the altitude of the pine woods

where he seemed to have left humanity behind him Once or twice he saw a

shy, half-wild child who fled froaze at him out of startled eyes from a safe distance

Occasionally he would stop to look down, fro threads of water tue below, or at a

châlet-like house perched far beneath in its tririculture

Finally he stretched himself indolently on a carpet of pine needles at

the brink of a drop to the valley Then, with a sense of recognition, he

saw the tu's driveway below him to the left,