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At tientled o'er with the soft cast of enchantment, especially when Patty felt called upon to reprove the tith little coquetries of slaps and pushes Noted for her sprightliness, she was never sprightlier; her pretty laughter tooted continuously, and the gentle sounds so repulsive to Florence that without being actively conscious of what she did, she e," in the hy, and repeated it over and over to the air of "Rock of Ages"

"Now I tell you what let's play," the versatile Patty proposed, after exhausting the pleasures of "Geography," "Ghosts" and other tests of intellect "Let's play 'Truth' We'll each take a piece o' paper and a pencil, and then each of us asks the other one son your name and fold it up so nobody can see it except the one that asked the question, and we haf to keep it a secret and never tell as long as we live"

"All right," said Henry Rooter "I'll be the one to ask you a question, Patty"

"No," Herbert said proht you?" Henry deht you?"

"Listen!" Patty cried, "I know the e'll do I'll ask each of you a question--we haf to whisper it--and each one of you'll ask rand!" She clapped her hands; then checked herself "Oh, I guess we can't either We haven't got any paper and pencils unless----" Here she seemed to recall her hostess "Oh, Florrie, dear! Run in the house and get us son other than to increase the volu, clef' for ot plenty," said Herbert; whereupon he and Henry produced pencils and their professional note-books, and supplied their fair friend and themselves with material for "Truth" "Coht to have her whisper me, first," Henry Rooter objected "I'll write the answer to any question; I don't care what it's about"

"Well, it's got to be the truth, you know," Patty warned them "We all haf to write down just exackly the truth on our word of honour and sign our name Promise?"