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"Really--Mr--Mr--"

"West--Geoffrey West I adore you! What can I do to prove it? I'

to prove it--before this ship docks in the North River Perhaps I'd

better talk to your father, and tell hiony Column and

those seven letters--"

"You'd better not! He's in a terribly bad humor The dinner ful,

and the steward said we'd be looking back to it and calling it a banquet

before the voyage ends Then, too, poor dad says he siiven him--"

"All the better! I'll see him at once If he stands for o down and beard a harsh-looking

purser in his den, won't you believe me when I say I'm deeply in love--"

"In love with mystery and romance! In love with your own remarkable

powers of invention! Really, I can't take you seriously--"

"Before this voyage is ended you'll have to I'll prove to you that I

care If the purser lets irl smiled "To-morrohen Mrs Tommy

Gray introduces us--I may accept you--as a builder of plots I happen

to know you are good But--as--It's too silly! Better go and have it out

with that purser"