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 to the end of the platform, and partly perhaps because it had relieved her to tell him about the golf ball, she told him also of her Three Great Sums—told him as quickly as she could, especially toward the end when the train came puffing into the station.

"Great Scott!" he muttered when she had ended.

They hurried to the waiting train together. "Good-bye," she said, shyly holding out her hand.

They shook hands; and the last Charlotte saw of him he was standing on the platform staring thoughtfully after the departing train.