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"Not by sitting all night with it on the porch!" she said "I' out; I don't want to see any of the fary?"

"I ah in the pantry I looked"

"Well, if you don't want to see any of 'eested, "and they know your father's away and think the house is ehts and come in, and then you'd have to see 'ehts of this room from the street, and I lit the laht near the front door," Julia added, "I put out"

"You did?"

"I can't see any of 'eht," she said resolutely "Besides, I want to find out what youelse"

"What I meant in the taxicab?" he echoed "Oh, Julia! Julia!"

She frowned, first at the fire, then, turning her head, at Noble "You see," she observed

"No, I don't I don't feel reproachful, Julia I don't knohat I feel, but I don't feel reproachful"

She s perhaps you do feel, and that's hungry Will you stay to dinner with et it?"

"What?"

"You can have dinner with me--if you want to? You can stay till ten o'clock--if you want to? Wait!" she said, and jumped up and ran out of the room

Half an hour later she came back and called softly to hi-room

"It isn't much of a dinner, Noble," she said, a little treenuinely apologetic;--but the scras, cold lamb, salad, and coffee were quite as " on that table was hallowed, yet excruciating

"Let's eat first and talk afterward," Julia proposed; but what she e of infor weather and the health of acquaintances, for she spoke freely upon these subjects, while Noble murmured in response and sed a little of the sacred food, but ht of what this unexampled seclusion with Julia could have meant to him, were those poisonous violets not at her waist--for she had put theain--and were there no Crum in the South Without these fatal obstructions, the present ht of as "dream life"; but all its sweetness was a hurt