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 "Haven't got any what?" asked Prudence.

"Haven't got any palette," he answered, in the voice of one overwhelmed and dazed by a great calamity.

"Then I fear you won't be able to do much this morning," she said, struggling with a smile.

"No, I fear not," he answered, dolefully. "And just when I was about to do a veritable masterpiece, too! How cruelly Fate toys with us! Now, just because Hunter neglected to supply me with a palette, the world loses a great painting! I was going to call it"—he sank his voice to a confidential whisper—"I was going to call it 'Apple-Trees!'"

"A most original title!" she exclaimed, evidently quite impressed.

"Isn't it? And now—now it will