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 a while, "She hasn't come yet, and we don't even know where she lives."

"But we could get it in advance, you know." Bess was very much in earnest. "You put in whatever you were going to spend for me, and I'll put in what I was going to spend for you, and we'll club together and get something to have ready for her when she comes."

Somehow I liked the idea. I wouldn't have supposed that such a thing would look good to me, but it did. "What'll we get?" I asked. "We don't know what sort of things she likes."

"It would be nice to get something for her room," said Bess; and we talked it over, all the way to the store, and at last decided upon a writing desk, if we could get one to fit our purses.

Uncle Rob was behind the counter when we went in, and helped us to choose the thimble, and we got a dandy, and then waited for Dad to come in and tell us what it would cost. Of course I knew the cost mark, ordinarily, but the one we picked out seemed to have been marked wrong, for I was positive that it cost more than the letters made it. While we were waiting, Bess and I browsed around, and she found a silver key ring