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"She's a nice kid," he said "I'm fond of her And I don't knohat to

do"

Suddenly Joe grinned

"I see," he said "And you can't tell her, or the fa the deuce of a row"

He began, automatically, to dress for dinner Joe e juice and ice, and produced a bottle

of gin fro Leslie did not hear him, nor the later preparation

of the cocktails He was reflecting bitterly on the fact that a ainst romance, a wall, compounded of his

o sense of responsibility, of faht him a cocktail

"Drink it, old dear," he said "And when it's down I'll tell you a few

little things about playing around with ladies who have a past Here's

to forgetting 'eht-o," he said

He went ho Joe to finish the business in

New York His going rather reseht before, he had found what many a man had discovered before hi as his caution

He had had a shock True, his affair with Beverly had been a forination and a desire to assure himself that

romance, for hi to

fear froht ho He was running like a

frightened child