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Flo Hutter's twentieth birthday cae hands for miles around were invited to celebrate

it

For the second tiown that

had ht, and had stunned Mrs Hutter, and had

brought a reluctant compliment from Glenn Carley liked to create a

sensation What were exquisite and expensive gowns for, if not that?

It ilight on this particular June night when she was ready to go

downstairs, and she tarried a while on the long porch The evening star,

so lonely and radiant, so cold and passionless in the dusky blue, had

become an object she waited for and watched, the sa ered

there What had the sights and sounds and smells of this wild canyon

coed her

immeasurably

Her soft slippers made no sound on the porch, and as she turned

the corner of the house, where shadows hovered thick, she heard Lee

Stanton's voice: "But, Flo, you loved me before Kilbourne came"

The content, the pathos, of his voice chained Carley to the spot So

"Shore I did," replied Flo, drea confronted by happy and sad thoughts on her birthday

"Don't you--love me--still?" he asked, huskily

"Why, of course, Lee! I don't change," she said

"But then, why--" There for the e failed

"Lee, do you want the honest to God's truth?"