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He stopped short and struck his palether "You are Tom Meredith's

little cousin!"

"The Great Harkless!" she answered, and stretched out her hand to him

"I reot you," he cried "I thought I had I didn't knoho it was I was reht it was fancy, and it was --and I reh I

thought I didn't" He drew a deep breath "That hy----"

"Tootten you," she said, as he paused

"Would you ave hi a record at it Thank you"

"They called me 'Sir Galahad's little sister' all one summer because the

Great John Harkless called "

"Did I?"

"Ah," she said, shaking her head, "you were too busy being in love with

Mrs Van Skuyt to remember a waltz with onlyrandfather, and askedI was then! How tireat impression upon you," she

continued

"But it did I a very fast If you ait a s you said"

The girl laughed hed he realized that it was

beco terribly difficult not to tell her how adorable she was "I

wouldn't risk it, if I were you," she warned hiht and tre with you I did not sleep that night, because I was so

unhappy, wondering what the Great Harkless would think of ht me unutterably stupid because I couldn't talk to him I wanted to

send him word that I knew I had bored him I couldn't bear for hi ofboat, the ungrateful pirate, cruising with Mrs

Van Skuyt"