She held up the hat still higher. “Isn’t that the great temptation, Mr. Man?”
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HIS FIRST APPEARANCE
THE stranger regarded Mrs. Van Groot, a little satiric something on his face which was not quite a smile and not quite a sneer. Catherine, as she glanced his way, thought what a difference there was between him and the Abednego P.
Thompson she had known on the boat; she could hardly believe that the two persons were the same. Thompson, so crude, so uncouth, so angular; this man such an excellent example of the cosmopolitan man of the world.
“Mrs. Van Groot,” he said, “hardly presents the case as it actually is. The person who naturally desires Miss Fraser’s beautiful hat can scarcely be compared to the multi-millionaire who incites impecunious creatures to gain possession
