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"That's all right I noticed you were holding your own," put in the stranger "It isn't every lars alone" He spoke in a voice of deep admiration

"Well, I noticed you were the only man on the spot till the parade was about over," said Allison, slapping him heartily on the shoulder "Say, I think I've seen you before riding that motor-cycle; tell me your name, please I want to know you next time I see you"

"Thanks, I'm not much to know, but I have an idea you are My nae, and take my meals at the pie-shop My motor-cycle is all the fahed, and held out his hand with a warrip of admiration

"I'm Allison Cloud; and this is my sister, Leslie Cloud, and my aunt, Miss Cloud; and this house we call Cloudy Villa You'll always be welco to coht back my sister's pearls, and put us doubly in your debt I'ht to be welcome here Please sit down ato the church bunch, and I don't think I've seen you about the college"

"No," said Letchworth, "not this year I' plant If everything goes ith e next fall I was a junior last year, but I couldn't quite ain"

There was a defiance in his tone as he told it, as if he had said, "Now perhaps you won't want to know , as if he would not take their friendship under false pretences

But trust Allison to say the graceful thing

"I somehow felt you were my superior," he said with his eyes full of real friendship "Sit down just a ain"

"Yes, do sit down," said Julia Cloud "I was just going to get these children a bite to eat, and I' tiood deal Aren't you hungry? The pie-shop won't be open this tiht"