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No more tugging of the heart-strings now! A new world, hand in hand with Desmio, full of new thrills -- and the wildest first! It needs a little fear to make excitement perfect. There is not much fun in victory unless the enemy has teeth to gnash! And there was malice, even in Jacqueline Lanier.
Desmio rang the bell; and not for kingdoms, not for her soul's salvation would Consuelo have missed being first on the scene. She came in answer to the bell -- curtseyed twice -- and was kissed by Jacqueline.