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When she could get about she took to calling hi-store at a near-by corner, and once he ether She was still weak, but she was

spiritualized, too He liked her a great deal that night

"Do you know you've loaned me over a hundred dollars, Graham?" she

asked

"That's not a loan I owed you that"

"I'll pay it back I' to start to-morrow to look for work, and it

won't cost me much to live"

"If you send it back, I'll buy you another watch!"

And, tragic as the subject was, they both laughed

"I'd have died if I hadn't had you to think about when I was sick,

Graham I wanted to die--except for you"

He had kissed her then, rather because he knew she expected hiot back to the house she said: "You wouldn't care to come up?"

"I don't think I had better, Anna"

"The landlady doesn't object There isn't any parlor All the girls have

their callers in their rooht," he said evasively "I'll colanced back at her She was standing in the

doorway, eying hiure He

was teo back But he did not

On the day when Clayton had broached the subject of offering their

output to the government at only a banker's profit, Anna called him up

at his new office in the munition plant