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Irene gave her dalanced at him mischievously "You must really not meddle with us," she said "Three people can't run an affair like that"

Mitchell folded his paper, eyed her suspiciously for ato Atlantic City? If he is, youto put up with that fellow's impudence People think you care for him--do you hear me?-- some people say you like him as well as he does you, and if he wasn't as poor as Job's turkey that you'd marry him"

Miss Mitchell avoided her father's eyes She shook out her hair again, and ran her white, ringed fingers through its brown depths "Haven't I promised you not to think of Andy in--in any serious way?" she faltered "His mother and sister are nice, and I don't want to offend the his na "I'd not be a natural woman if I didn't appreciate his--his honest ad!" Mitchell blurted out "He thinks you are going to have h to be influenced by his puppy love to make a fool of yourself Besides, he's in the way He took you to a dance not long ago when Mostyn wanted to go with you Dick toldto invite you, and then that young blockhead called for you"

Miss Mitchell had the air of one subduing interest She forced a faint sravity of her face "Andy had asked me a month before," she said, "or, rather, his mother asked me for him the day the cards were sent out"

"I knew she had a hand in it," Mitchell retorted, in a tone of conviction "That old woman is thewith you like a cat with a mouse They want my money, I tell you--that's what they are after I kno the old thing talks to you--she's always telling you her darling boy is dying of grief, and all that foolishness"

Irene avoided her father's eyes She wound a thick wisp of her hair around her head and began to fasten it with a hairpin He heard her sigh Then she looked straight at hi entirely too much," she half faltered, in a tone that was all but wistful "Now, I'll make you a promise if--if you'll make me one You are afraid Dick Mostyn and I will never coht I know I must be sensible, and I intend to be I' to propose Andy Buckton may be at Atlantic City with his mother, and I want you to treat them decently If you will be nice to theets back from the mountains he will propose and I will accept him"