THE GIRL IN HIS HOUSE
called the old curio-dealer in one of Balzac's tales, "The Magic Skin," and how the young wastrel had wished that the old chap fall in love with a ballerina. He never could quite separate Bordman from the idea that some one had accompanied him on his journey. There was no fool like an old fool. Every day in the year the newspapers had some story of this caliber. When a young woman enters the life of an old man there is no folly inconceivable. She would probably pick his pockets some day, and retribution would come in for its own.
Promptly at one Armitage left the office, changing his restaurant frequently for fear that he might fall into the old habit of going certain rounds until he became so bored that Wanderlust might not be denied, for all that at present New York held him in the strongest thrall.
The rainy season had fallen upon the town by the end of October. There were no more gallops through the Park. But there were occasions when he drove Doris about town in his recently purchased runabout. It was rare sport teaching her how to drive. She was always alive with interest
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