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Mr. Darcy’s Comedy Company. IOI going away “just for a day or two, to earn plenty more money very easily.” “So have just what you like, my darling. I have brought you some strawberries and a great bunch of roses and white lilies. Weare quite rich now, and what- ever you want you shall have.” As Phyllis’s eyes turned to the flowers the shadows on her face deepened. | “T ilies are not for me,” she murmured, and then re- lapsed into silence, staring at the flowers, and apparently oblivious of Dorothy’s presence. But when, on the day following, the moment of part- ing came, and Dorothy, beautiful in new clothes, bent over her to kiss her good-by, Phyllis threw her thin arms around her sister’s neck in sudden excitement. “You are going to find him, are you not?” she whis- pered eagerly. “To put things right and prove that I am married. Oh, Dolly, prove that, prove that!” It was a cry of anguish which rang out in the last words. Tears rushed from Dorothy’s eyes. How could she tell her of Sergius’s flight to America, and, above all, of his statement that he was “going back to his wife” there? Embracing Phyllis fondly, she laid her head back upon the pillows. “T will do all I can, you know, darling,” she said. “I am only going away because of you, because I want you to have everything you require. You will forgive me for leaving you, will you not?” Phyllis’s soft eyes were fixed upon her with a look of appeal in them, which it cut Dorothy to the heart to see. All her love was lavished on her sister, and Dorothy’s was a nature strong both to love and to hate. In those crucial years of a woman’s life, from seventeen to twenty, when distant thoughts of love-making and romance creep Eomichboo S (EC)