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 she's come to our chapter with something she's covering up."

"But what was it, Myra?"

"That's what was asked me. No one knows. I wonder if Dave does."

Alice s bosom fluttered. Of herself, she never put much store by that secret of Fidelia's but this revival of it excited her.

Myra inquired, bluntly: "Fidelia has no baby yet, has she?"

"No.".

"That seems funny to me. I thought she surely would, she's so naturally animal."

"I thought she would," said Alice.

"You and Dave ever talk over the subject of children?" Myra demanded mercilessly.

"Yes."

"You were going to have them, of course."

"Yes. He thought, Myra, for man and wife to live together except with the idea of having children was sin. He was brought up strictly about that, but he modified the idea, some."

"Evidently he's modified it a good deal more. Men are remarkable creatures, Alice, with their ideas. Thank God Lan takes to normal, scientific, rationalistic notions. Yet he's overtaken with sentiment sometimes. Of course he is about me; I like it. He suddenly insisted on a real father-give-away-the-bride wedding with flower girls and potted palms everywhere. Heavens, I don't care what I'm married in or where. I'd gladly go to Baltimore as I am or to the dock to marry him before he sails, but he wants