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"You don't know a thing about it!" Evadna stopped rocking, and sat up very straight in the chair "And even if that were true, is that any reason why he should AVOIDhis life!"

"He doesn't avoid you And you're acting sillier than I ever supposed you could He can't be in two places at once, can he? Now, let's be sensible, chicken Grant--"

"Oh--h!" There was a peculiar, sliding inflection upon that word, which ie's hand shut into a fist

"Grant"--Miss Georgie put a defiant eet to the botto crooked about it, and he knows it, and is trying to--"

"I know all that" Evadna interrupted without apology

"Well, of course, if you DO--then I needn't tell you how silly it is for you to colected, when you know his ti to ferret out a way to block their little game He feels in a certain sense responsible--"

"Yes, I know He thinks he should have been watching so with me He took the trouble to make that clear to ht, but there was no look of an angel in her face

Miss Georgie pressed her lips together tightly for a minute When she spoke, she was cheerfully impersonal as to tone and oose The man is simply crazy about you, and harassed to death with this ranch business Once that's settled--well, you'll see what sort of a lover he can be!"

"Thank you so e but thankful; indeed, she seeelanced toward the door as if sheback in the chair and beginning to rock again

"It's a nasty, underhand business fro the remark "It has upset everybody--me included, and I'm sure it isn't my affair It's just one of those tricky cases that you know is rotten to the core, and yet you can't see definite My dad had one or two experiences with old Bauer--and if ever there was a sly old mole of a man, he's one

"Did you ever take after a arden at home They burrow underneath the surface, you know, and one never sees thee of loose earth that they're there, and if you think you've located Mr Mole, and jab a stick dohy--he's soers, even then Dad," she finished re his law stick dohere the earth seeer, to e"