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THE FIFTH STRING
the handsome young fellow?" he asked, looking at the portrait with the satisfaction a man feels when he sees a splendid type of his own sex.
"That is Angelo Diotti, the famous violinist," she said, but she could not add another word.
As they strolled through the rooms he noticed no less than three likenesses of the Tuscan. And as they passed her room he saw still another on the chiffonnier.
"Seems to me the house is running wild with photographs of that fiddler," he said.
For the first time in her life she was self-conscious: "I will wait for a more opportune time to tell him," she thought.
In the scheme of Diotti's appearance in New York there were to be two more concerts. One was to be given
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