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" Though
it was only the old lure of youth and sex, he felt that it was as
divinely fresh and wonderful as first love.
"Is it too little?" he asked, and his voice sounded so far off that it
was faint in his ears.
She raised her lashes and gave him a glance charged with meaning. "That
depends," she answered, and suddenly, without warning, she passed to the
lightest and gayest of tones. "Everything depends on something else,
doesn't it? Now Father is coming out, and I must run upstairs and
dress."
It was a dismissal, he knew, and yet he hesitated. "May I come again
soon?" he asked, and held out his hand.
To his surprise Patty greeted his question with a laugh. "Do you really
like politics so much?" she retorted; and fled lightly toward the
staircase beyond the library.


CHAPTER XII
A JOURNEY INTO MEAN STREETS

Darrow's little car was waiting before the entrance; and as soon as
Stephen had taken his place by the old man's side, they shot forward
into the smoky twilight.


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