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The Avalanche

CHAPTER IV
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The Gwynnes and the Thorntons until Ruyler met Helene had been the friends whose society he had sought most in his rare hours of leisure, and he had spent many summer week-ends at their country homes.

He had hoped that the intimacy would deepen after his marriage, but Helene during the past year had gone almost exclusively with the younger set, the "dancing squad"; natural enough considering her age, but Ruyler would have expected a girl of so much intelligence, to say nothing of her severe education, to have tired long since of that artificial wing of society devoted solely to froth, and gravitated naturally toward the best the city afforded.

But she had appeared to like the older women better at first than later, although she accepted their invitations to large dinners and dances.
[Footnote A: See "Ancestors."] Ruyler made up his mind to attend this dinner at Gwynne's, and telephoned his acceptance before he left Long's.

Business or no business, he should be his wife's bodyguard hereafter.

There were blackmailers in society as out of it, and it was possible that his ubiquity would frighten them off.
Whether to demand his wife's confidence or not he was undecided.


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