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 about me to like, that I'd go without eatin', if yuh said so!" Here Sadie once more sighed contentedly. "And I sure like my eats!"

Their hands clasped midway across the narrow table.

"I like everything about you!" he said with sudden fervor. And he knew it was true.

"Yuh see I've canned that junk yuh kicked about," she announced, as she stared hungrily down at her now ringless fingers. Yet she looked up at him again, even more hungrily. "Yuh ain't ashamed of me?" she implored.

"You're wonderful!" he averred.

Her eyes deepened and darkened. She sighed happily. Then her linked fingers at the table-center closed with sudden passion about his hand. "Hully gee, but I love yuh!" she cried out with a tremulous little choke in her voice. "I love yuh so much that it hurts!"

"You'll never be sorry for it!" was Wilsnach's equally tremulous reply.

"I know I won't. But sometimes I think yuh will!"

"Try me!"

"Sometimes," went on the woman with whom, he