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"That's not like you, Harve"

"Sorry" His tone softened "I don't care uess you knohy"

"So does everybody else"

He sat up and looked at her

"Well, suppose they do? I can't help that, can I? When a fellow has

been jilted--"

"You haven't been jilted"

He lay down again, his arms under his head; and Belle knew that his eyes

were on Sara Lee's picture on his dresser

"It aly, "I've brought Sara Lee's report from

the Ladies' Aid May I read it to you?"

"I don't want to hear it" Then: "Give it here I'll look at it"

He read it carefully, his hands rather unsteady So iven chocolate So s done And at the bottoetic, rather breathless

request, and closing, rather primly with this: "I am sure that the society will feel, from the above report, that the

work is worth while, and worth continuing I araphs of the ht it is impossible I enclose, however, a small picture of the

house, which is non as the little house of ht!" said Harvey "So she's there alone with a lot of ignorant