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Rh "Ah, yes," said the lady, preparing to follow Griff out. "I am really glad to have known you—but I am sorry we began our acquaintance so unfortunately."

"That—that is all right, Mrs. Prentice," returned the girl.

Griff called back goodnight to her over his shoulder. And at the gate he parted from the lady whose carelessness had made all the trouble.

"That's just what I told you, Mrs. Prentice," he said. "They're all right folks, those Morses. Yes, Mrs. Prentice, I'll remember to send all those things you ordered over in the morning—first delivery," and he went off, whistling.