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"Did he give his consent?"

"Why--hang it--I--we got to talking business and I forgot to----"

"So like you, dear However, it ht, for he said he

should need your help in buying the coast branches and The Short Line"

"The Short Line," gasped Glover "Well, I haven't inventoried lately

If we marry in June----"

"Don't worry about that, for we sha'n't marry in June, my love"

"But e do, we shall need so-trip----"

"We certainly shall; a lot of it, dearie"

"I may have ten or twelve hundred left after that is provided for But

reat, and if he's

going to make up a pool, o, to buy The Short Line--or any other line heMarie about yourwonderfully shrewd----"