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No. 13 Washington Square

CHAPTER XXI
7/15

It's the most popular pastime in Paris, to walk into the Seine.

But why," ended Olivetta with a spiteful burst,--"why couldn't she have amused herself in her own clothes?
That's what I want to know!" "And then?
What did you do ?" breathed Mrs.De Peyster.
"When it came out three days later that it was you, I was so--so frightened that I didn't know what to do.

I didn't dare deny the report, for that would have been to expose you.

And I didn't dare cable to you that it was all a mistake and that I was all right, for that would have been just as bad.

Perhaps I might have acted differently, but I--well, I ran away.


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