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"You surprise me" Saunders flushed red "I didn't know that I had ever--I don't remember-"

"No, I' to tell you now, for I arateful You know, perhaps, that Ann used to care a good deal for that reckless fellow Abe Westbrook?"

"Yes, I reether frequently," Saunders answered

"Well, he became more and more dissipated and so bold and ill-bred that he even came to see her when he was intoxicated I was afraid to call father's attention to it for two reasons--first, father's teht elope with the fellow So I had to be very, very cautious I tried talking to Ann, but it went in at one ear and out at the other Nothing I said had the slightest effect on her Then she got tohim at different places away from home, and I was almost crazy Then you, as you always have done, came to my aid"

"I? Why, Dolly, I am sure that I have never--"

"You don't relow suffused her face--"but I'll re?"

"The day you didn't go," Saunders nodded "I re for you everywhere"

"Well, that day, when all the girls felt so highly honored by your presence, and you were so nice to the her to drive home with you"

"Of course I remember that," Saunders said; "I enjoyed the drive veryyou said, exactly," Dolly went on, "but youthat day and misbehaved badly before every one, even when they were all eating lunch together Ann told ht and waked me She told ain In contrasting him with you she sahat a failure he was She said she had never before so plainly seen her danger She saw the look of disgust in your face while Abe was acting so badly, and your failure to refer to the incident on the way ho completely turned her round, opened her eyes, and already she has stopped thinking of him"