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Rh lion said in French: “Poor Norinne! Poor Norinne! And so, Rachette, you are going to marry Marie, by and by?” There was a quizzical look in Medallion’s eyes.

Rachette threw up his chin a little. “I’m going to marry Norinne on New Year’s Day,” he said.

“Bagosh! poor Norinne!” said Medallion, in a queer sort of tone. “It is the way of the world,” he added. “I’ll wait for Marie myself.”

It looks as if he meant to, for she has no better friend. He talks to her much of Gal Bargon; of which her mother is glad, for there is but one great love in a woman's life. All others have different names and meanings.