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"Jane, I've known all that since I first saw you Our beloved pastor kindly inforht he introduced us, so you see how little weight it had with any of us I had no knowledge but that it was all true, although I couldn't for the life of me see how a man as unworthy of you could have possibly been your father; but it was you, and not your father, I fell in love with the first night I saw you I'lad for your sake that he wasn't that kind of man, because I kno you would feel about it, but as for what other people think about it, I should worry! And Jane,to be er to have the right to protect you----"

The tall trees whispered above their heads, and the birds looked down and dropped wonderful melodies about them, and Leslie stormily drove her car back and forth on the pike and sounded her klaxon loud and long, but it was almost an hour later that it suddenly occurred to Allison that Leslie aiting for the finally wended their way out to the road and were taken up by the subdued and weary Leslie, who greeted theer enthusiasht

An hour later Allison, after co his future bride to the tender hter, took his way collegeward He sent up his card to Miss Frazer and Miss Brice and requested that he ht see them both as soon as possible, and in a flutter of expectancy the two presently entered the reception-roo he had coh each was disappointed to find that she was not the only one su for therown toworavity and proceeded at once to business: "I have coht alure lost its boyishness, "that Miss Bristol is my fiancée, and as such it is my business to protect her I ize before your sorority for what happened this "