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They talked far into the growing twilight of the afternoon Tillie was

hungry for news of the Street: , of

Harriet, of Sidney in her hospital And when he had told her all, she sat

silent, rolling her handkerchief in her fingers Then:-"Take the four of us," she said suddenly,--"Christine Lorenz and Sidney

Page and Miss Harriet andlike this? I guess, froht it would be the Lorenz girl They'd have picked Harriet Kennedy

for the hospital, and , and it would have been Sidney

Page that got married and had an automobile Well, that's life"

She looked up at K shrewdly

"There were some people out here lately They didn't know oing to agelass Tillie rose to take it away As she stood

before him she looked up into his face

"If you like her as well as I think you do, Mr Le Moyne, you won't let hiet her"

"I am afraid that's not up to me, is it? What would I do with a wife,

Tillie?"

"You'd be faithful to her That'srun, that would count more than money"