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Nevertheless, the letter in her pocket which she had not been able to look at carefully enough to be sure if she knew the writing, crackled and rustled and set her heart beating excitedly, and her ht be She answered Dottie Wetherill's chatter with distraughtthat Dottie would feel it necessary to go home soon after lunch

But it presently beca home soon; that she had co all her arts to accomplish it Ruth presently roused froive Dottie as little satisfaction as possible out of her task It was evident that she had been sent to discover the exact standing and relation in which Ruth held Lieutenant Harry Wainwright Ruth strongly suspected that Dottie's brother Bob had been the instigator of thehim the information

So Ruth's srew in her lovely eyes Dottie chattered on sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, the up at the end with so question Ruth answered in all apparent innocence and sincerity, yet with an utterly different turn of the conversation from what had been expected, and with an indifference that was hopelessly baffling unless the young ambassador asked a point blank question, which she hardly dared to do of Ruth Macdonald without ed thus away, and finally Dottie Wetherill at the end of her s, and at a loss for ain to the main idea, reluctantly accepted her defeat and took herself away, leaving Ruth to her long delayed letter