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Rh “Ho, ho” said Mary, laughing. “Didn’t you know that Julius and Norman and I sat out nights on old Lady Flanagan’s porch?”

“Why, no; how should I? I don’t go snooping around anybody’s porch.”

“Ha, ha, Dad,” said Julius; “no snooping would find that out. Mary and I had had this plan so long ago that I didn’t know a World War was coming!”