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WOMAN'S WILES.
At eleven o'clock the next morning, Tavernake presented himself at the Milan Court and inquired for Mrs.Wenham Gardner.

He was sent at once to her apartments in charge of a page.

She was lying upon a sofa piled up with cushions, wrapped in a wonderful blue garment which seemed somehow to deepen the color of her eyes.

By her side was a small table on which was some chocolate, a bowl of roses, and a roll of newspapers.