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 as sweet as they make them. She 's the sort of girl who looks you in the eye when she talks to you; there 's no damned nonsense about May."

Jasper Cole concealed a smile.

"What the devil are you grinning at?" demanded John Minute.

"I also was thinking that there was no nonsense about her," he said.

John Minute swung round.

"Jasper," he said, "May is the kind of girl I would like you to marry; in fact, she is the girl I would like you to marry."

"I think Frank would have something to say about that," said the other, stirring his coffee.

"Frank!" snorted John Minute. "What the devil do I care about Frank? Frank has to do as he 's told. He 's a lucky young man and a bit of a rascal, too, I 'm thinking. Frank would marry anybody with a pretty face. Why, if I had n't interfered—"

Jasper looked up.