The Flame Dancer (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Has She? He said; then he crossed over toward Bertha, being introduced on the way to the Chinese professor, whose name was struh-la.

Even as the introduction was taking place, before he actually had reached Miss Wilmerding's Side, the faint, persistent wraith of his fantasy for what a woman he might love should be, arose before him, hovering just between him and the Oriental man. Yes, that was it; Reggie had unconsciously, it is true, groped almost all over the world looking for his woman, and now to Sit down with Bertha Wilmer ding! Well, it did seem a bit crushing.

He did not, however, Sit down with her just yet. Leopold Warren, the host of the occasion, Jean's un cle and godfather, Betty Austin's brother, nodded beckoningly to him en route, from one of the adjoin ing rooms, and Mr. Stevens responded with alacrity he would have done so to almost any one who had called him away from Bertha Wilmerding. Doctor Warren didn't want to say anything especially, unless it might have been to emphasize the man from the Orient to his American friend.

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