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"Thanks for the tribute," Madeline smiled as he disappeared down the

drive "Dick, I wish you'd always be on hand when he co"

"Rureet the boy they had known all his life,

to ask the innuh dinner

Afterwards, when the last fragathered on the piazza It was that dreamy hour when

women find it easy to be silent and men to talk Madeline and her mother

sat close, with hands restfully clasped in their joy at being together

Mr Elton eyed the two young e of years of shreisdom Both the boys were clean-shaven, after the manner of the day, a

fashion that seeorous and

self-controlled Both were good to look at; but here the rese slender face and body lithe with its athletic

training, was alive and restless, as though he found it difficult to

keep back his passion for activity; Ellery, big but loosely joined, had

the dogged look of one that held soood

pair, Mr Elton concluded, and felt a sudden spased Madeline for any trousered biped