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his little girl and not love her Or be the better for it"

She kissed him and slid off the arm of his chair

"Don't you worry," she said cheerfully "I had to irl does Sometimes it's the plumber It

doesn't really matter who it is, so you can pin your drea that hurts is that Graham wasn't worth while"

She went back to her little cards, but soht, heard the scratching of her pen cease

"Did you ever think, daddy," she said, "of the influence women have over

Graha her

husband desperately unhappy And--"

"Unhappy? What makes you think that?"

"He looks unhappy"

The rector was startled He had an instant vision of Clayton Spencer,

tall, composed, handso

that suited hiance of his home Clayton unhappy!

Nonsense But he was uneasy, too That very gravity which he had noticed

lately, that was certainly not the gravity of an entirely happy ed, somehow Was there trouble there? And if there

were, why?