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"Georgie" Won't you please open his eyes for him? I'm going 'way back to his mother right now."

"I assure you," said I earnestly, "that I will do my very best for you—but Georgie's a bit of a mule, you know. He has an unnatural tendency to go strongly in the opposite direction at times."

"That's so," said she dejectedly. "Then I guess you'd better go to him and blacken my character considerable."

We parted. She to float sadly and gracefully down the garden path; I, back to Georgie.

"Georgie," said I, with my usual diplomacy, "it was a forward thing for that girl to do."

Georgie laughed bitterly.

"Gone off a bit in her looks, do you think?" I asked cautiously.

"Rot!" said Georgie.

"Seriously," said I, "she's a Goddess Girl, and she loves you, Georgie."

"Oh, shut up!" said he rudely. 280