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 would. The Nucast business was safe. In Chicago already this morning they would be working on the Nucast order, counting upon it, depending upon it for the next year's business. The order must have gone through by this time and been accepted.

Lida was not long. She was very quick; and slim and smart when she appeared in a dress of brown so deep it was almost black, like her eyes. She had on a hat which made her head small and smarter and accented the slightly upturned tip of her nose. She stepped into the sunlight and the warm brown in her dress and in her eyes flashed forth. She smiled confidently and kissed Jay, coolly.

"How do we get married, you and I?" she said.

"License, I suppose, first, I guess."

"You go for it; or must they look us both over?"

"Both, I seem t've heard," said Jay.

"So d'I."

"City Hall. I don't know it's the only place; but must be a place."

"All right."

The cat in the sun under the Psyche was waking up. The cat stretched herself languorously, sensuously and rubbed back and forth against Jay's leg. He withdrew. He hated that cat with its thick, tawny coat. Lida stooped and caressed the cat. "Good-bye, Raca," she said. It was her sole word of parting and, apparently, her sole sensation. How much more had been his at leaving his home in Chicago, after Beedy had called him?

The coat, which Lida chose this morning, proved to copy the color of the cat. He did not like it; he wanted