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"I' you" She looked at him honestly "I'd just rather have

you care about me thanof exultation and despair He

left her there when he went away that afternoon, a rather downcast young

figure, piling up records and card-indexes, and following hi, anxious eyes Later on in the afternoon Joey,

wandering in from Clayton's office on one of his self-constituted

observation tours, found her crying softly while she wiped her

typewriter, preparatory to covering it for the night

"Soh?" he asked,here, anyhow?" she de on ot to keep an eye on you"

"Well, you don't"

"Look here," he said, his young-old face twitching with anxiety "You

get out froet out fro to fall"

"Justabout me That's all"

He turned and started out

"Oh, very well," he said sharply "But you ,

anyhow That cousin of yours has got an eye on you, all right And we

don't want any scandal about the place"

"We? Who are 'we'?"