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Rh as they chose, and she would pick them all up at five o'clock with Carter and the car.

"Esther and I want to see 'The Heart of June,'" announced Libbie, who found romance enough to satisfy her in the motion-pictures.

Louise was interested, too; but Betty had promised to take some papers for Mr. Littell and see that they reached an architect in one of the nearby office buildings. Bobby elected to go with her, and they decided that, that errand accomplished, they might do a little shopping and meet the others at the theater door at five o'clock.

"Mr. Waters won't be in till three o'clock," announced the freckle-faced office boy who met them in the outer office of the architect's suite.

"Then we'll have to come back," decided Betty, glancing at her watch. "It is just two now."

"You can leave anything with me," said the boy politely. "I'll see that he gets it as soon as he comes in."

"Yes, do, Betty," urged Bobby. "Dad would say it was all right to leave that envelope of papers. They're not terribly important."

"We can do our shopping and then come back," insisted Betty, to the evident disgust of Bobby and the hardly less concealed impatience of the office boy.

"Why wouldn't you leave 'em?" demanded Bobby, when they were once more in the street.