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It was Dick, and he approached the: "Nell! Nell! Where on earth are you, Nell?"

They had barely time to move before he was upon the----Hallo!" he

broke off, staring first at Nell's red and downcast face, and then at

Drake's s and quite obviously joyous one "What----"

Drake took Nell's hand

"We quite forgot you, Dick, and everybody and everything else But

you'll forgive us when you hear that Nell and I have--have----"

"Made it up again!" finished Dick, with a grin that ran froe, you don't say so! Well, I said it was only a tiff; now,

didn't I, Nell? But it was a pretty long one Eighteen months or

thereabouts, isn't it?"

For a mohteen ht wish us

joy"

"I do, I do--or I would, if I wasn't starving!" retorted Dick "While

you have been spooning under the spreading chestnut tree, I've been

wrestling with the electric dynaht of even bread and