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Pa tst Oine at oon~''s 21
A girl, alone, entered Rooney's, glanced around with
leisurely swiftness, and sat opposite Me-ianus at his table.
Her eyes rested upon him for two seconds in the look
with which woman reconnoitres all men whom she for the
first time confronts. In that space of time she will decide
upon one of two things - either to scream for the police,
or that she may marry him later on.
lHer brief inspection concluded, the girl laid on the table
a worn red morocco shopping bag with the inevitable top-
gallant sail of frayed lace handkerchief flying from a cor-
ner of it. After she had ordered a small beer from the
immediate waiter she took from her bag a box of cigar-
ettes and lighted one with slightly exaggerated ease of man-
ner. Then she looked again in the eyes of Cork McMIanus
and smiled.
Instantly the doom of each was scaled.
The unqualified desire of a man to buy clothes and
build fires for a woman for a whole lifetime at first sight
of her is not uncommon among that humble portion of
humanity that does not care for Bradstreet or coats-of-arms
or Shaw's plays. Love at first sight has occurred a time
or two in high life; but, as a rule, the extempore mania
is to be found among unsophisticated creatures such as
the dove, the blue-tailed dinghat, and the ten-dollar-a-week
clerk. Poets, subscribers to all fiction magazines, and
schatchens, take notice.
With the exchange of the mysterious magnetic currentI I
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