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Flowing Gold

CHAPTER XIV
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This was the second compliment paid her since her arrival at the Notch, therefore when the phonograph resumed its melodious measures she yielded herself with abandon to the arms of her partner, and her red lips were parted, her somber eyes were shining.

That day she began a course of exhibition dancing.
It was on that afternoon that Delamater had told the clerk of discovering Ma Briskow alone in the woods.

There was an open golf tournament at the Notch, prominent amateurs and professionals were competing, and the hotel was crowded to its capacity with players, fashionable followers of the game and a small army of society reporters and sport writers.

This being the height of the season, social doings at the resort were featured in all the large Eastern papers, for famous names were on the register and the hotel switch was jammed with private cars.
Allie Briskow was in one of her trying moods to-day, for the out-of-doors called to her.

Sounds of laughter and gayety, strains of music, had distracted her from her studies, her monotonous routine had become hopelessly unbearable all at once.


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