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 "So had I," answered Wade truthfully. "And—" looking at his watch—"I've wasted a half-hour!" He laughed ruefully. "I shall have to make up for lost time, Miss Burnett. By the way, I dare say Smith calls you by your first name?"

"Sometimes," she replied gravely.

"And you call him—Kingdon?"

"Just King."

"Then, Prue—"

"I beg your pardon!" exclaimed the girl startledly.

"I called you Prue," he said calmly. "I was to have the same privileges as Smith, wasn't I?"

"Oh! … But—"

"Does he kiss you?"

"No!" This resentfully and explosively.

"I'm glad of that," mused Wade. "Not but what—"

He didn't finish, but the color crept into Prue's cheeks.

"Tell me," he said, "what it is about me that you don't like."