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He promptly took off his coat, displaying in the rays of a green-shaded student lamp a pair of forearms worthy of the hands which went with them.

He felt as he used to feel when under the student lamp in his college room he had calculated the chances of filling a bobtail straight as against a four flush.

He stood outside a time, looking through the window at Jane whose golden head was bowed in the mellow glow of the student lamp as she worked at her desk.

On a center table, all gilt and glass, was a common student lamp, looking cheap and mean in that quiet, rich, glittering room, and beside it were some sheets of paper and several pencils.

“I was correcting some examination papers,” she added, going to the desk and turning out the student lamp.