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"Since Wilfred is in the party to take care of things, and look after

you," suggested Lescott, as he caood-by here, and run along to the studio Sa like a new boy in school thisYou'll find the

usual litter of flowers and fiction in your staterooms to attest my

filial and brotherly devotion"

"Was the brotherly senti and brazen gravity that brought to the girl's eyes and

lips a half- and wholly decorative twinkle of amusement

"Just because I try to be a sister to you, Wilfred," she calmly

reproved, "I can't undertake to make my brother do it, too Besides, he

couldn't be a sister to you"

"But by dropping that attitude--which is entirely gratuitous--you will

coards brotherly love is

brief and terse, 'Let George do it!'" Mr Horton was co his breakfast with an excellent appetite, to which the

prospect of six weeks a Bermuda lilies with Adrienne lent a fillip

"So, brother-to-be," he continued, "you have e"

"Beg pardon, sir!" The Lescott butler leaned close to the painter's

ear, and spoke with a note of apology as though deploring the necessity

of broaching such a subject "But will you kindly speak with the