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"Well, isn't that the way men do nowadays?" she demanded

"A fellow has to feel reasonably sure, I dare say, before he takes a chance No one wants to be refused, you know," he ad up withslipped down over her finger And then, for the next hour, they planned and the future seelorious as it was

"You can't help succeeding," she repeated," the same as your father has Isn't he wonderful? Oh, Graydon, I'm so proud of you!" she cried, enthusiastically

"I can never be the overnor is," said Graydon, loyally "I couldn't be as big as father if I lived to be a hundred and twenty-six He's the best ever! He's done everything for me, Jane," the son went on, waro forht be here together Of course, HE could succeed anywhere Wasn't it bully of hio just--just foras he is when you are fifty-five," she said, so plaintively that he laughed aloud "You'll probably be very fat and very bald by that time"

"And very healthy, if that can make it seem more horrible to you," he added For so while she stared reflectively into the fire opposite Then squaring his shoulders as if preparing for a trying task, he announced firht, dearest He likes me, I'm sure, and I--I don't think he'll refuse to let me have you Do you?"

"My dad's just as fair as yours, Gray," she said with a so to mother I know she'll be happy--oh, so happy"

Banse and thinking room, as he called it

"Coarette? Take a cigar, then Bad night outside, isn't it?"

"Is it? I hadn't--er--noticed," said Graydon, dropping into a chair and nervously nipping the end froot in a few o The road expects to do a lot of work West this year, and I've been talking with the ways and entlemen--a polite and parliaratulating you after the annual election, Mr Cable"