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"Sixteenth and Walnut," Wallie replied, shortly

"What do you think I'"

"I'?"

"To reduce C D says I look like a cement-mixer in action"

Wallie was annoyed by the confidence

Miss Gaskett beckoned him

"Have you seen Cutie, Wallie?"

"No," curtly

"When I called her thisshe looked at me with eyes like saucers and simply tore into the bushes Do you suppose anybody has abused her?"

Mr Cone, as standing in the doorent back to his desk hastily

"I'm not in her confidence," said Wallie with so much sarcas to Mr Appel, as listening so attentively that Wallie wondered what she was saying They were sitting close to theof the reception room and it occurred to Wallie that there would be no har his curiosity The conversation was not of a private nature and in other circumstances he would have joined them, so, on his way to the elevator to find his aunt, he paused a