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The Venturers 289
" I understand you," said Ives, with a slow smile. " Well, I
think I will be going up to my rooms now. If you would dine
with me here one evening soon, Mr. Forster, I'd be glad."
"Thursday ?" suggested Forster.
"At seven, if it's convenient," answered Ives.
"Seven goes," assented Forster.
At half-past eight Ives got into a cab and was driven
to a number in one of the correct West Seventies. His card
admitted him to the reception room of an old-fashioned
house into which the spirits of Fortune, Chance and
Adventure had never dared to enter. On the walls were
the Whistler etchings, the steel engravings by Oh-what's-
his-name ?, the still-life paintings of the grapes and garden
truck with the watermelon seeds spilled on the table as
natural as life, and the Greuze head. It was a household.
There were even brass andirons. On a table was an album,
half-morocco, with oxidized-silver protections on the
corners of the lids. A clock on the mantel ticked loudly,
with a warning click at five minutes to nine. Ives looked
at it curiously, remembering a time-piece in his grand-
mother's home that gave such a warning.
And then down the stairs and into the room came Mary
Marsden. She was twenty-four, and I leave her to your
imagination. But I must say this much -youth and
health and simplicity and courage and greenish-violet
eyes are beautiful, and she had all these. She gave Ives
her hand with the sweet cordiality of an old friendship.~jjl~LTIL~Tliii. _. _1__1I1_~*--- -O1 -______ ___. ___ - ~. rCt;
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