Her manner, yesterday, at seeing Mrs.Taine, was certainly very strange." As if to free his mind from the unsuccessful effort to remember, he rose to his feet.

"But why should she be added to the characters in my novel, Mr.
King?
What does she represent ?" "Her name,"-- said the artist,--"in your study of life, is suggested by her face--so beautiful on the one side--so distorted on the other--her name should be 'Symbol'." "There really is hope for you," returned the older man, with his quizzing smile.

"Good night.

Come, Czar." He passed into the hotel--the dog at his heels.
It was two days later--Thursday--that Conrad Lagrange made his memorable visit to the Taines--memorable, in my story, because, at that time, Mrs.
Taine gave such unmistakable evidence of her interest in Aaron King and his future..