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"Not even a guess?" asked Nancy Ellen

"Not even a guess, with any sense to it I've thought it was

coot a stubborn Bates streak, and I

won't lift a finger to help him He'll speak up, loud and plain,

or there will be no 'connubial bliss' for us, as Agatha says I

think he has ideas about other things than freight train gear

According to his programme we must have so much time to become

acquainted, I must see his home and people, he must see mine If

there's more after that, I'et back to-night, I can't say"

"Have you told him --?" asked Nancy Ellen

"Not the details, but the essentials He knows that I can't go

houess they had

thought before, that my people were poor as church mice I

happened to mention how much land I had helped earn for my

brothers, and they seemed so interested I finished the job Well,

after they had heard about the Land King, it made a noticeable

difference in their treatment of me Not that they weren't always

fine, but it ible -- but it was a difference, an added respect You bet

s on to those deeds,

when I get out in the world They are his compensation for his