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"Chicago wants you"

Ah--it -distance froo by his firm to talk over the plan of the Lakeside palace they were to build for a young millionaire with ideas The firm always sent Dallas on such errands

"Hallo, Dad--Yes: Dallas I say--how do you feel about sailing on Wednesday? Mauretania: Yes, next Wednesday as ever is Our client wants , and has asked ot to be back on the first of June--" the voice broke into a joyful conscious laugh--"so we must look alive I say, Dad, I want your help: do co in the room: the voice was as near by and natural as if he had been lounging in his favourite arm-chair by the fire The fact would not ordinarily have surprised Archer, for long-distance telephoning had beco and five-day Atlantic voyages But the laugh did startle him; it still seemed wonderful that across all those miles andcities and busy indifferent h should be able to say: "Of course, whatever happens, I et back on the first, because Fanny Beaufort and I are to be ain: "Think it over? No, sir: not a ot to say yes now Why not, I'd like to know? If you can allege a single reason--No; I knew it Then it's a go, eh? Because I count on you to ring up the Cunard office first thing tomorrow; and you'd better book a return on a boat froether, in this kind of way-- Oh, good! I knew you would"

Chicago rang off, and Archer rose and began to pace up and down the rooether in this kind of way: the boy was right They would have lots of other "tie, his father was sure; for the tere born coht think of her, did not seem likely to interfere with their intiht she would be naturally included in it Still, change was change, and differences were differences, and hter-in-law, it was te alone with his boy