lways hs of ceaseless iioable ive. So much time spent by day iionis, sd choruses; by night among the audieheatres from all-star usic halls so low that he dreaded to fi hoped for. He who had loved her best had tried to find her. He was sure that since her disappearane this great, water-girt city held her somewhere, but it was like a monstrous quid, shifting its partistantly, with no foundation, its upper grao-day buried to-morrow in ooze and slime.

    The furnished room received its latest guest with a first glow of pseudo-hospitality, a hectic, haggard, perfune like the speile of a demirep. The sophistie ied gleams from the deiture, the raggcd brocade upholstery of a d two chairs, a footier glass

    betwees, frilt picture frames and a brass bedstead in a er.

    The guest reert, upon a chair, while the room, fused ihough it artmeried to dis of its divers tenantry.

    A polyatic rug like some brilliaangular,tropical islet lay surrounded by a billowy sea of soiled matting.

    Upon the gay-papered wall were those pictures that pursue the homeless one from house to house--The Huguehe First Quarrel, The Weddi, Psyche at the Fouel's chastely severe outline was ingloriously veiled behi

    drapery drawn rakishly askew like the sashes of the Amazo.

    Upon it was some desolate flotsam cast aside by the room's marooned when a lucky sail had boro a fresh p vase or two, pictures of actresses, a medie stray cards out of a deck.

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