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David Harum

CHAPTER III
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I saw your name in the passenger list with Mr.and Mrs.Carling, and wondered if it could be the Mary Blake whom I really did remember, and the first night at dinner, when I heard your sister call Mr.Carling 'Julius,' and heard him call you 'Mary,' I was sure of you.

But I hardly got a fair look at your face, and, indeed, I confess that if I had had no clew at all I might not have recognized you." "I think you would have been quite excusable," she replied, "and whether you would or would not have known me is 'one of those things that no fellow can find out,' and isn't of supreme importance anyway.

We each know who the other is now, at all events." "Yes," said John, "I am happy to think that we have come to a conclusion on that point.

But how does it happen that I have heard nothing of you all these years, or you of me, as I suppose ?" "For the reason, I fancy," she replied, "that during that period of short frocks with me my sister married Mr.Carling and took me with her to Chicago, where Mr.Carling was in business.

We have been back in New York only for the last two or three years." "It might have been on the cards that I should come across you in Europe," said John.


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