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"I believe I have enough" Thomas appeared to be disturbed not in the

least by the older man's hilarity It was not infectious, because he

did not understand it

"Glad you came toI'm no authority on clothes, but my secretary is I'll have

hiht He'll

take your measure, and by the end of the week" He did not finish

the sentence, but pressed one of the many buttons on his desk "Clark,

this is Mr Webb, Mrs Killigrew's secretary He wants sorew smiled broadly The humor of the situation did

not blind him to the salient fact that this Webb was a e a co, honest clothes for honest dollars AAnd for a ht that Webb had fallen in love with Kitty and wanted to marry

her! He chuckled Clothes!

What a boy Kitty would havea person! No servant-question ever dangled its hot

interrogation point before his eyes Kitty saw to that She was the

real er of the household affairs, for all that he paid the bills

Some day she would marry a proper man; but heaven keep that day as far

off as possible What would he do without Kitty? Always ready to

perch on his knee, to smooth the day-cares frohter in the house He was not going to love

thethat