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Rh went on in a whisper, "I want your picture in this, Jessie."

"Oh!" she murmured.

"Your picture on one side, and a lock of your hair on the other. Without those I won't consider the gift complete."

"Oh, Dave, don't be silly!"

"I'm not silly—I mean it, Jessie. You'll give them to me, won't you, before I go back to Oak Hall?"

"Maybe. I'll see how you behave!" was the answer, and then just as Dave started to catch her by the arm, she ran away to join Laura. But she threw him a smile from over her shoulder that meant a great deal to him.

In the afternoon, Ben came over, with his young lady cousin, and all the young folks went sleigh-riding. The evening was spent at the Wadsworth mansion in playing games and in singing favorite songs. Altogether it was a Christmas to be long remembered.

During the fall Mr. Wadsworth had been busy, building an addition to his jewelry works, and on the day after Christmas Dave went over to the place with his uncle, to look around. The addition covered a plot nearly a hundred feet square and was two stories high.

"It will give us a new office and several new departments," said the rich manufacturer, as he