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She handed Nancy Ellen the letter and slowly ripped open the flap

of the heavy white envelope She drew forth the sheet and sat an

instant with it in her fingers, watching the expression of Nancy

Ellen's face, while she read the e Holt's nature and opportunities could

devise tospent several months in the

construction of it It was a masterly letter, perfectly co his other fields of endeavour,

George Holt had taught several terht

theht have become a fine

instructor, had it been in his blood to stick to anything long

enough to e as she turned the second

sheet Nancy Ellen glanced at Kate, and saw that she had not opened

the creased page in her hands She flamed with sudden irritation

"You do beat the band!" she cried "You've watched for two days

and been provoked because that letter didn't coot

it, there you sit like a mummy and let your mind be so filled with

this idiotic drivel that you're not ever reading John Jardine's

letter that is to tell you what both of us are crazy to know"

"If you were in any mood to be fair and honest, you'd admit that

you never read a finer letter than THAT," said Kate "As for

THIS, I never was so AFRAID in all my life Look at that!"

She threw the envelope in Nancy Ellen's lap

"That is the very first line of John Jardine's writing I have ever