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 her capitulation there could and there would be no reservations.

"You'll never need to do that," protested Wilsnach. "We'll try and make it more like the other place!"

"And yuh care that much?" she hungrily repeated.

"I care far more than that!" stoutly declared Wilsnach.

"And yuh wasn't just kiddin' when yuh sent me them violets?" she forlornly demanded.

"Of course I wasn't."

That brought Sadie's thoughts back to the world that still lay about them.

"And yuh—yuh could care for a girl who'd got balled up wit' a couple o' lemons, b'fore she got gerry to what a real man was like?"

"We're not going to think of the past," he told her. "Neither of yours nor of mine!" But her strangling little sigh did not escape his notice. She was remembering what Kestner had only that morning told her.

"But yuh can't get away from the past," she declared, as she shook herself free and stared about