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The Visioning

CHAPTER V
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She is here for a rest.

She may not come down for several days." "Not what one would call a hilarious guest," he commented.
"No, less hilarious than Zelda Fraser." Katie spitefully mentioned a former guest whom Wayne had particularly detested.
He laughed.

"Well, who is she?
What did you say her name was ?" "Oh Wayne," she sighed long-sufferingly, "again--once again--let me tell you that her name is Forrest." "What Forrest ?" "'Um, I don't believe you know Ann's people." "Not the Major Forrest family ?" "No, not that family; not army people at all." "Well, what people?
I can't seem to place her." "Ann is of--artistic people.

Her father was a great artist.

That is, he would have been a great artist had he not died when he was very young." "Rather an assumption, isn't it, that a man would have--" "Why not at all, if he has done enough during his brief lifetime to warrant the assumption." "Is her mother living ?" "Oh no," said Katie irritably, "certainly not.


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