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She had taken her portfolio from under her arm and laid it on his desk

It was a pretty portfolio, bound in powder blue and silver, and was

fastened by a powder blue tape with silver tassels Bones eyed it with

pardonable curiosity

"I' went on in her

soft, sweet voice "I think we can raise all the s to sell"

"I see, dear old erly "You want a few old

clothes? I've got a couple of suits at ho, but you knoe boys are; ear 'em until

they fall off!"

The horrified Hamilton returned to the scrutiny of his notes

"I don't suppose under-garments, if you will permit the indelicacy,on, when the girl stopped

hientle shake of her head

"No, Mr Tibbetts, it is awfully kind of you, but we do not want

anything like that The e expect to raise a lot of raphs of celebrities," she said

"The photographs of celebrities?" repeated Bones "But, raph taken for years"

Haain at what followed, but for

the fact that he had got a little beyond the gasping stage

The girl was untying her portfolio, and now she produced so and

laid it on the desk before Bones