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Rh “The work itself satisfies me.”

“It doesn’t satisfy me. You have got to produce and learn before you will grow.”

“You’re a wise body for such a small package.”

“That’s the way wisdom comes.”

“Perhaps, O sibyl, you will read the future and tell me how I am to finance a trip to New York.”

“Oh, the money will be provided,” airily.

“Yes, I suppose it will. It always is when actual need demands it, but how?”

“Never mind how. Just rest in the assurance that it will.”

He looked at her, smiling.

“Do you know I sometimes suspect that Fate had a hand in bringing us together? We are so alike.”

“We are so alike we’re different,” she amended, laughing.

She waited until next day to explode her bomb.

“I think if you finish up the play this week, Jarvis, we can have it typed early next week, and get off to New York on Friday or Saturday.”

He stared at her.

“On foot?” he inquired.

“Oh, no. I find I have the money.”

“You find you have it! You had that much and