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 not glance at her new instructor, but said, unsmilingly, to Miss Curtis: "I can't see any point in my taking this course, Miss Curtis. My grandfather would always have some young man from his bank take care of my check-book for me."

"Perhaps," said the accountant, haughtily, "you mightn't always be able to get a young man from the bank."

"I've never found any trouble about that," said the little princess. But she sat down at the desk, and George opened her check-book and turned over the pages.

"To self, to self, to self— Why, Miss Benedotti," he said, reprovingly, "this is no way to keep a book. You don't say for what you draw the amounts."

"Sometimes I do," she returned, and she pointed to one item which read, "For George's birthday present, $20."

The accountant colored deeply. "It was a wonderful present," he said. "I mean it must have been."

"It was nice," answered the princess, "but not too nice for George." And then turning to Miss Curtis she asked, innocently, "Is it part of this gentleman's duty to comment on the way I spend my money?"

"No, certainly," said Miss Curtis, who