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"What were you going to ask me, Captain Selwyn?"
"Did he row--your brother Gerald?"
"No," she said. She did not add that he had broken training; that was
her own sorrow, to be concealed even from Gerald. "No; he played polo
sometimes. He rides beautifully, Captain Selwyn, and he is so clever
when he cares to be--at the traps, for example--and--oh--anything. He
once swam--oh, dear, I forget; was it five or fifteen or fifty miles? Is
that _too_ far? Do people swim those distances?"
"Some of those distances," replied Selwyn.
"Well, then, Gerald swam some of those distances--and everybody was
amazed. . . . I do wish you knew him well."
"I mean to," he said. "I must look him up at his rooms or his club
or--perhaps--at Neergard & Co."
"_Will_ you do this?" she asked, so earnestly that he glanced up
surprised.
"Yes," he said; and after a moment: "I'll do it to-day, I think; this
afternoon."
"Have you time? You mustn't let me--"
"Time?" he repeated; "I have nothing else, except a watch to help me get
rid of it.


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