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 "No," admitted Mrs. Larry reluctantly, "we didn't see it in operation. But the idea is wonderful, if you could just get the right person to put it in operation."

"If you found her, one of the bachelor stockholders would promptly marry her, and that would settle it. And so from the kitchen you went to the school for housemaids?"

"No, Larry, we did not. Teresa telephoned one of the ladies interested in the school, and she was getting ready to go to a tea, but said if we would telephone Mrs. Somebody else, she would be delighted—"

"If she didn't happen to have a tea on hand also."

"So then we all suddenly decided that we wanted to come home. Teresa remembered an appointment with her tailor—you know they are going to take the Panama trip, don't you? And Mrs. Norton wanted to fill in her dinner set at a china sale, and I—well, Larry, I had the funniest sinking sensation when I happened to remember that I'd been away from the children almost five hours. And we ran like mad to catch the next train?"