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All of Honey's sex-pride flared in this buoyant assurance It had

apparently not yet occurred to him that he would not conquer Lulu in the

end and conquer her byof hi of the five couples

continued

"Say, Ralph," Honey said one day in a calm interval, "it's just occurred

toin a bunch for quite some

time Don't suppose they've quarrelled, do you?"

Everybody stopped work to stare at him "I bet that's the answer," Ralph

exclaimed His voice held the note of one for whom a private

mystification has at last broken

"But what do you suppose they've quarrelled about?" Pete Murphy asked

"Me," Honey said prohed absent-mindedly "It's a hundred to one shot that they're

quarrelling about us, though," he said For some mysterious reason this

theory raised his spirits perceptibly

"But - to get down to brass tacks," Pete asked in a puzzled tone, "what

have we done to ," Ralph answered with one of his lordly

assuanization that