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"No hurry about the near dinner time Good-by"

"Wait Take this box of candy with you"

Soloered "The whole box?"

"Certainly"

"Gee!"

He slid over the rail with the candy under his arm

When he disappeared, Gertrude went back to her staterooh quite alone in the car, and re-read her note

"I have no right to keep this after you leave; perhaps I had no right

to keep it at all But in returning it to you I surely may thank you

for the i I lay asleep

behind the Spider dike"

It was he, then, lying in the rain, ill then, perhaps--nursed by the

nondescript cub that had just left her

The Newarment She had

always liked the coat, and her eye fell now upon it critically,

wondering what he thought of the gar so unexpected an

acquaintance with her inti she saw a mud stain on the silk and the pretty fawn melton was

spotted with rain She folded it up before the horseback party

returned and put it away, stained and spotted, at the bottom of her

trunk