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you'd call it painting; you've got queer ideas on art."

"No queerer than your ideas on literature!"

"Maybe; every man to his trade. Meanwhile, I insist that Bijou Beattie does dabble."

"Bijou?"

"Yes; sweet name, isn't it? And suits her so well!"

"Does it?"

"Well, doesn't it? You've seen her, haven't you?"

"I'm not sure. Is she rather slight and graceful, with yellowish hair and——"

"No, she's not," answered Hunter, gruffly. "She's tall and awkward and has dark hair, which she wears tied in a bundle on top of her silly head. And she wears things that fit her too quick, much too quick."