THIS FLAMBOYANT TALE--A STORY OF AMBITIOUS HEDONISM AND OF THE DESOLATE SPLENDOUR OF A GIRL’S DEVOTION, A STORY OF PERVERTED CRUELTY, OF LUST FOR PROPERTY AND OF THE GENIAL OBTUSENESS OF THE UPRIGHT IS FROM GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP FROM ADMIRATION OF HIS SENSIBILITY AND FROM A DUE APPRECIATION OF HIS AUSPICIOUS CIPHER INSCRIBED WITH CORDIAL REGARD TO O. K. THE avenue sloped upward from the meeting-place of the five rides to where, grandiose on the line of the horizon, tall, wrought-iron gates fenced off a space of sky. Through the uprights and foliations of the grille was seen only sky, for the gates crowned the hill-crest and, as it were, checked with a movement of their graceful finge…
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