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"
The
Colonel
,
who
had
a
small
,
gray
goatee
and
sportive
dark
eyes
,
winked
the
latter
solemnly
.
Cowperwood
arose
.
"
Take
me
there
,
"
he
said
.
It
was
a
rainy
night
.
The
business
on
which
he
was
seeing
the
Colonel
required
another
day
to
complete
.
There
was
little
or
nothing
to
do
.
On
the
way
the
Colonel
retailed
more
of
the
life
history
of
Nannie
Hedden
,
as
he
familiarly
called
her
,
and
explained
that
,
although
this
was
her
maiden
name
,
she
had
subsequently
become
first
Mrs.
John
Alexander
Fleming
,
then
,
after
a
divorce
,
Mrs.
Ira
George
Carter
,
and
now
,
alas
!
was
known
among
the
exclusive
set
of
fast
livers
,
to
which
he
belonged
,
as
plain
Hattie
Starr
,
the
keeper
of
a
more
or
less
secret
house
of
ill
repute
.
Cowperwood
did
not
take
so
much
interest
in
all
this
until
he
saw
her
,
and
then
only
because
of
two
children
the
Colonel
told
him
about
,
one
a
girl
by
her
first
marriage
,
Berenice
Fleming
,
who
was
away
in
a
New
York
boarding-school
,
the
other
a
boy
,
Rolfe
Carter
,
who
was
in
a
military
school
for
boys
somewhere
in
the
West
.
"
That
daughter
of
hers
,
"
observed
the
Colonel
,
"
is
a
chip
of
the
old
block
,
unless
I
miss
my
guess
.
I
only
saw
her
two
or
three
times
a
few
years
ago
when
I
was
down
East
at
her
mother
's
summer
home
;
but
she
struck
me
as
having
great
charm
even
for
a
girl
of
ten
.
She
's
a
lady
born
,
if
ever
there
was
one
.
How
her
mother
is
to
keep
her
straight
,
living
as
she
does
,
is
more
than
I
know
.
How
she
keeps
her
in
that
school
is
a
mystery
.
There
's
apt
to
be
a
scandal
here
at
any
time
.
I
'm
very
sure
the
girl
does
n't
know
anything
about
her
mother
's
business
.
She
never
lets
her
come
out
here
.
"
"
Berenice
Fleming
,
"
Cowperwood
thought
to
himself
.
"
What
a
pleasing
name
,
and
what
a
peculiar
handicap
in
life
.
"
"
How
old
is
the
daughter
now
?
"
he
inquired
.
"
Oh
,
she
must
be
about
fifteen
--
not
more
than
that
.
"
When
they
reached
the
house
,
which
was
located
in
a
rather
somber
,
treeless
street
,
Cowperwood
was
surprised
to
find
the
interior
spacious
and
tastefully
furnished
.
Presently
Mrs.
Carter
,
as
she
was
generally
known
in
society
,
or
Hattie
Starr
,
as
she
was
known
to
a
less
satisfying
world
,
appeared
.
Cowperwood
realized
at
once
that
he
was
in
the
presence
of
a
woman
who
,
whatever
her
present
occupation
,
was
not
without
marked
evidences
of
refinement
.
She
was
exceedingly
intelligent
,
if
not
highly
intellectual
,
trig
,
vivacious
,
anything
but
commonplace
.
A
certain
spirited
undulation
in
her
walk
,
a
seeming
gay
,
frank
indifference
to
her
position
in
life
,
an
obvious
accustomedness
to
polite
surroundings
took
his
fancy
.
Her
hair
was
built
up
in
a
loose
Frenchy
way
,
after
the
fashion
of
the
empire
,
and
her
cheeks
were
slightly
mottled
with
red
veins
.
Her
color
was
too
high
,
and
yet
it
was
not
utterly
unbecoming
.
She
had
friendly
gray-blue
eyes
,
which
went
well
with
her
light-brown
hair
;
along
with
a
pink
flowered
house-gown
,
which
became
her
fulling
figure
,
she
wore
pearls
.
