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"I've often wondered who locked me in It couldn't have been you, of course?"

"As you say But I was there"

"It wasn't--?"

"But it was I thought you'd guess that She got your letter and came up ready to fall into your arms--opened the door softly like any heroine of fiction--I told her to knock--but no: beheld the pink silk picture and fled the happy shore forever"

"Da your pardon, but really--"

"Don't waste those really convincing damns on ancient history I told her it didn't hted of you"

"It was also quite futile She said it means she didn't love you at any rate I suppose she wrote and told you so"

A long pause Then: "As you say," said Vernon, "it's ancient history But you said so about another ain if it's the slightest comfort to you--I've heard worse words"

"When?" asked Vernon, and he sipped his Verht away?"

"Bless ave her the distaste for alltime We took her home, her father and me: by the way, he and she are tremendous chums now"