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206 that day, and changed my mind, intending to talk with her when we got home."

And Minnie read this:

"Don't believe allyou hear. In the first place it's nonsense to think thatyou could expect the truth from one so shallow as Minerva Stone. I never liked her. She may seem all right as a friend, butI'd advise you to have little to do with her. She says onething to your face and another to your back. I'm afraid she'sdeceptive, and that's about the meanest trait any girl can have. Better let your new friend- ship gradually cool, and drop her altogether. Honestly, to tell the truth, I think Minnie Cuthbert ought to be enough chum for you."

When she finished this she looked up at him with tear-steeped eyes.

"We're friends again once more, Minnie, are we not." he asked, smiling.

"Yes, good friends; true friends, I hope Frank!" she replied as they clasped hands, and a pair of happy gray eyes looked up shyly into the darker orbs of the boy.