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"Listen! Didn't I and Herbert tell you to keep out o' here?" he said "Look at her, Herbert! She's back again!"

"You get out o' here, Florence," said Herbert, abandoning his task with a look of pain "How often we got to tell you we don't want you around here e're in our office like this?"

"For Heaven's sake!" Henry Rooter thought fit to add "Can't you quit runnin' up and down our office stairs once in a while, long enough for us to get our newspaper work done? Can't you give us a little peace?"

The pinkiness of Florence's altering complexion was justified; she had not been within a thousand miles of their old office for four days With so, "And I only caht to see that this stable isn't ruined It's uess, isn't it? Answer me that, if you'll kindly please to do so!"

"It's ot a right to say who's allowed in my own father and mother's stable?"

"You have not," the prompt Florence replied "It's ht here as anybody"

"You have not!" Henry Rooter protested hotly "This isn't either your ole aunt and uncle's stable"

"It isn't?"

"No, it is not! This isn't anybody's stable It's ot the face to stand there and claiot a right there when everybody tells you to stay outside of it, I guess!"

"Oh, haven't I?"

"No, you 'haven't--I'!" Mr Rooter o in any Newspaper Buildings down there and tell 'e when they tell you to get out o' there! Just try it! That's all I ask!"

Florence uttered a cry of derision "And pray, whoever told you I was bound to do everything you askto that hostile ionist effectively, reflects upon his ancestors "If you got anything you want to ask, you go ask your grandmother!"