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"I'd like to take up that loan and save the rest of the year's interest,

Deacon Rowley," stated Mayo, with sailorly bluntness

The girl was trying to convey to the deacon the fact that heher head This seemed to the

intermediary like direct and conclusive orders from the principal

"No, sir, Captain Mayo! It can't be done"

"I don't call that a square deal between ht

business may be"

Polly now signaled eager assent,to make the deacon understand

that he must take the irl affirht business

"You took it for a year No back tracks, captain"

She shook her head, violently

"No, sir! Keep it, as you agreed, and pay your interest"

"Deacon Rowley, you're an old idiot!" blazed the girl

When the deacon yanked off his spectacles, and Captain Mayo turned

amazed eyes to her, she put her hands to her face and ran out of the

store, sobbing She was only a girl! She had no more resources left with

which to meet that situation in men's affairs