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ernnuMit oj-Jent who innocently wooed his sweetheart's don hie.
Cautiously opening the door . . . Lisa saw, as if looking into herself— but pale, and gasping for breath.
[VAX PAVLOFF turned from Mrs. Car*■ ter Morrill to his motherless twin daughters, playing on the steerage floor, and spoke bitterly :
"1 can sec it is best for the child. Russia has crushed me — let her have a chance in your world."
"You understand." Senator Merrill said, not unkindly, "we want the child to become absolutely our own, and in return will pay you twenty-five thousand dollars, to give you a start in America?"
Pavloff merelv bowed. "Which one?"
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By Jerome Shorey
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lie asked, in a low whisper. The three of them turned again to watch the children. It was impos sible to tell them apart. Just then one of the little girls, tired of her toy, fiercely demanded her sister's. The other smiled, handed over the plaything, and kissed prettily the small tyrant. Mrs. Merrill seized the generous one to her breast.
"That is Lisa," Pavloff said. From the floor the other sister looked on unconcernedly, but with a calculating eye to see that Lisa received no gift in which she did not share.
The details of the transaction were quickly arranged. The legal steps should be taken immediately upon landing at New York. Pavloff watched the Merrills depart to the upper deck, brushed his hand across misted eves ; and returned to his place.
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Lisa !" he sighed. "But it s just as well. Olga can lake care f herself."
THAT strange but not uncommon miracle, love at first sight, was the happy lot of John Huntington and Li-^a Merrill. Nor was there any apparent reason why this love should not pursue an even course to its goal. Huntington, it was admitted in Washington, was a ''coming man." He was wealthy, of good family, and after years of study of interna tional affairs had offered his services to tiie Government with the high purpose of serv
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