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leave you I don't know the story, but at least he must support you A

ation I think I'll have to

go after hi forward "Don't do that He has had a bad scare

But he's had one decent impulse, too Let him alone, Clay"

She placed the money on the stand, and rose As she faced him, she

impulsively placed her hands on his shoulders

"I wish I could tell you, Clay," she said, in her low, slightly husky

voice, "how very, very much I admire you You're pretty much of a man,

you know And--there aren't such a lot of the to kiss hi faintly, led the way downstairs Once down,

however, she voiced the under lying thought in her ive ive myself So I'm damned either way"

But ten minutes later, with a

at the piano with a cigaret tucked behind her ear, looking distractingly

pretty and very gay and singing a slightly indecorous but very witty

little French song