why Govern Aristé had never found other women fair.
I had been as a voyager who sails on a long journey, seeking he knows not what, until on a clear day he comes to a bay of calm blue water that is his harbor and his home.
As I looked into her eyes, I saw recognition of me leap into her own.
"My name is Govern Aristé, and I am sure I have met you before," I told her. "May I call a taxi and take you home?"
"And I have met you, although I do not recall where," she replied. "Your name is an odd one but I do not seem to remember it."
"I have always wished for a comfortable, sensible name," I confided, "such a name as Peter."
"Peter would suit you much better," she agreed. "My name is Edith Montgomery. I live with my father, who will be much worried at my late return. I shall be very glad to have you take me home."
I hailed a passing taxi. As we climbed into it, the police patrol drove up and a big policeman led the deformed ruffian toward it. The man turned and cursed me, the cause of his misfortune; and in his evil face, now under the strong light of the machine's headlight, I saw distinctly the brutal features of Tom, the hangman of London Town.
But I had other things to think of than hangmen. A May morning in the hunting park of good Queen Bess or a taxicab in a dark city street—when a man finds romance, what matters the setting? The rapture is the same.
In some way—I can not remember the details—we reached my lady's home. She left me with a sweet-spoken good-bye and an invitation to call on the morrow and receive her father's thanks, after she had told him the story of her unpleasant adventure.
Somehow—I can not remember the
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