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The tennis party had dissolved, dinner was an agreeable memory, and Mayne with his new friends, sat out in the broad verandah, and gazed at a moon, -- which, like a pale golden disc, hung midway in the dark blue sky.
The two men were smoking, Sam was circling uneasily round his unheeding mistress, when she suddenly said: