Woman or- What
engagements - Did you not receive
mly letters or could you not find the
place appointed "- Here she broke
into a little musical laugh that seemed
familiar to him, but, after a hopeless
effort to place it, he helplessly gave it
up. For a moment he stood staring
at her, unable to answer her fusillade
of questions. Then before he could
courteously reply, assuring her that
she had made a mistake, that it was
not he whom she had expected, she
quietly took his arm, and leaning
lightly upon it, said, " Let us walk
in this direction;" indicating a long
dark avenue of larch and elm trees,
along which the gravestones glim-
mered like ghosts, and at whose far
end, like a torch at the end of a cav-
ern, glittered and hissed the globe of
an electric light. After a pause she
continued questioningly: " You are
glad to see me You do not object to
walking with me
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