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Copyright, 1914, by The Red Book Corporation




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

"It all looked very intimate and lover-like"
_Frontispiece_

"He bounded forward to meet her" 48

"His solitary table was near theirs in the restaurant" 64

"'He is often in some scrape--something must have
culminated to-night'" 224




THE MAN AND THE MOMENT


CHAPTER I