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Already, as the car

Sidney, after her involuntary bath in the river, had gone into tes Hotel In the oven of the kitchen stove sat

her two sht dry in

shape Back in a detached laundry, a syar-chair in a hot bedroom She was carefully swathed

in a sheet fro as

philosophic as possible After all, it was a good chance to think things

over She had very little tiive up Joe Drummond She didn't want to hurt him Well,

there was that to think over and a matter of probation dresses to be talked

over later with her Aunt Harriet Also, there was a great deal of advice

to K Le Moyne, as ridiculously extravagant, before trusting the house

to him She folded her white ars As a matter of fact, she went er Wilson--to his straight figure in its white coat, to his

dark eyes and heavy hair, to the cleft in his chin when he smiled

"You know, I have always been more than half in love with you htly at the door She was back again in the stuffy

hotel roo the sheet about her

"Yes?"

"It's Le Moyne Are you all right?"