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Patience was an early riser, and had usually read the "Day" through before Beverly lounged downstairs, sleepy and cross and masculine. On the morning after her day of varied experience she took the newspaper into the library and read the first page leisurely, as was her habit. The news of the world still interested her profoundly. Then she read the editorials, and, later, glanced idly at the headlines of the "stories. " The following arrested her startled eye:
AN EARTHQUAKE IN MARIAVILLE! THE GOOD PEOPLE ARE OUTRAGED! A SENSATION BY THE BEAUTIFUL AND BRILLIANT MRS. BEVERLY PEELE!