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"But I'm only a boy, which makes all the difference, don't you see?"

said Dick na&iu"

She pretended to eye hi' And I think it's very rude of you not to take

an answer"

"All right," he said cheerfully "Then will you coo since we had soested

"Thank you; but I a aniood," he said, with a grin "My sister, Nell couldn't

have put that one in irl over there, dancing with Captain

White? How pretty she is!"

"Think so? Yes, she is, now you irlish laughter, which he had been waiting for, rang out, and,

taking advantage of it, Dick coaxed her into a corner on the stairs,

where they could flirt to their hearts' content

"I wonder whether you'd be offended if I told you that you were the

jolliest--I abond, with

an assumption of innocence and humility which robbed the remark of any