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Mr.PRITCHARD OF NEW YORK.
Later in the evening, Beatrice and Tavernake traveled together in a motor omnibus from their rooms at Chelsea to Northumberland Avenue.
Tavernake was getting quite used to the programme by now.

They sat in a dimly-lit waiting-room until the time came for Beatrice to sing.

Every now and then an excitable little person who was the secretary to some institution or other would run in and offer them refreshments, and tell them in what order they were to appear.

To-night there was no departure from the ordinary course of things, except that there was slightly more stir.