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Frances Cable sat at her escritoire for an hour, her brain working with feverish energy She was seeking out the right step to take in advance of Ja after she had taken her step and retired to rest--but not to sleep On her desk lay half a dozen invitations, two of them froorous aspirations were forcing her She pushed them aside and with narrowed eyes wrote to James Bansemer--wrote the note of the diplomat who seeks to forestall: "DEAR ME BANSEMER: Doubtless Graydon will have told you his good news before this reaches you, but Mr Cable and I feel that we cannot per you of our own happiness and of our co--en famille--at seven-thirty?

"FRANCES CABLE"

David Cable read the note and sent it early the next ement of Jane Cable and Graydon Banse papers