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"Fro out her skirts before sitting

down, "I aton, for the first ti I have a plain business proposition to reat friends I can see that now"

"I hope so"

"And you, being a--well, an open-ht Bennington), "will be asking all aboutto be a , young ulch with my people"

"I know--Mr Lawton's"

She looked at hiht

ahead--not out in the air, of course--you could see the roof of the

house Now, after we know each other better, the natural thing for you

to do will be to coreed that it would

"Well, you ton expressed his astonishment

"I will explain a very little In a month occurs the Pioneer's Picnic

at Rapid You don't knohat the Pioneer's Picnic is? Ignorant boy!

It's our most i to try an experi to try an experiment on ato you after the Pioneer's Picnic, and not a

ton assured her sincerely

She took on a small air of tyranny "Now understand ain, you must do as I tell you You ton cast a fleeting wonder over the subliirl so certain he would care to see her again Then,

with a grip at the heart, he owned that the self-confidence ell

founded