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"Julia," and noas Lulu who questioned, "why do you not marry Billy

when you love him so?" The seriousness of her tone, the warmth of

affection in her little brown face robbed this question of any

appearance of impertinence

"Lulu," Julia answered si

inside has always said, 'Wait!'"

"Well, you did well," Peachy said bitterly, for, at least, Billy loves

you just asover to the

Clubhouse thehis

Sundays in long exploring trao off

into the interior for a week at a time"

"But he would be just like all the others, Julia," Clara exclai as you can!"

"Don't ever marry him, Julia," Chiquita warned "Keep your life a

perpetual wooing"

"Marry him to-morrow, Julia," Lulu advised "Oh, I cannot think what my

life would have been without Honey-Boy and Honey-Bunch"

"I shall marry Billy sometime," Julia said "But I don't knohen When