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run to Long Beach the previous summer; he saw it. all, but he ad
vanced smiling.
Allen greeted him kindly:
“ Hello, old boy, glad to see you. Fact is, I was about to hunt
you up. We’re going to entertain Miss York and a few others for
an hour or so before the hop, we’ll look in about eleven, you know,
and I want you "to .come up and help round a bit. You’re so clever,
Stan, you’re worth.a dozen of the ordinary. I’ll consider it no end
of a favor and there’s five in it besides.”
“What, old man,'’you’re hot -sick, are you? You look all done
up., Lucile and I will run you home i,n the machine.”
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Stanley smiled bravely':
“No, thanks,/Allen, I’m perfectly well ; just been dreaming too
much of late, and am pining away for lack of exercise. I’ll be there
without fail. Goodnight;”’
As Stanley wearily climbed the stairs a second time that night,
and opened the little door pf the attic room, he was surprised at
how cheap and common the little array on the cot looked? He must
have been crazy. Why, Allen’s automobiling costume was elegant
beside it.' I
A Well, it didn’t matter anyway. He had come'*to the Univer
sity to work and there were twenty in analytical for himself that
night and eigh(t pagès of German for Renter. Mechanically he
reached for his tablet.
Elizabeth Ferguson.