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 she wanted to be with him all she could. She told me to whistle when the girl had got there, though.

I thought I'd go back up to the room and see if everything was all right; and as I went through the dining-room way, the first thing I saw was the dinner-table set for four! My heart gave a jump. She was coming before dinner,—she would be here in less than an hour! I rushed back to the veranda; but Bess was out of sight, and so I went on up stairs and put the jug of flowers on the table, instead of on the desk; and then I remembered that Bess had put it on the desk, and so I put it back, and moved around the magazines some, and looked in the dresser glass to see if it was clear, and tied my necktie over again, because one end was skew-haw,—and then I went back to the veranda. Gee, but the time did go slow!

It was a warm day, and it seemed sort of good to be in the hammock again, and hearing the old hooks and staples creak the way they did last Summer. I was just remembering how they sounded the day I first heard that that other girl