CHAPTER XXXIII.
ANOTHER TURN IN THE WALTZ.
The music streamed through the rooms in the soft, yearning, lingering, passionate, persuasive measures of a waltz.

Arthur Merlin had been very intently watching Hope Wayne, because he saw Abel Newt approaching with Mrs.Van Kraut, and he wished to catch the first look of Hope upon seeing him.
Mrs.Bleecker Van Kraut, when she waltzed, was simply a circular advertisement of the Van Kraut property.

Her slow rising and falling motion displayed the family jewels to the utmost advantage.

The same insolent smoothness and finish prevailed in the whole performance.

It was almost as perfect as the Paris toys which you wind up, and which spin smoothly round upon the table.