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 "Tha' 's mos' bes' nize speech I aever see!" she declared. She read a little of it. "Jus' full igles, dragons, Goddess Liberty, an' Suffering Freedom In-de-pen-dence! I got not a speech inside my hade, you got not inside your hade. What you go'n' do? Why, tha' 's mos' nize speech!"

She put it at him, and, being at the end of his wits, and thus tempted, he fell.

With a feeling of guilt acknowledged by both, but excused by the condign necessity, they set about editing the speech to suit the occasion, and then took up its rehearsal. But Bob was dissatisfied.

"Kohana-San," he protested, "those are not my sentiments. I don't believe in the eagle-and-dragon business."

"No!" cried Kohana-San, tragically, "I don', too. But—what you go'n' do? You got have sentiments. An' if you got not some of your own—sa-ay—what kin you do? Why! git some sentiments on outside your hade. Aha! Tha' 's a pity you got deceive your modder—yaes. But—if you don' deceive her, you go'n' break her heart—break her heart all up! Me? I thing tha' 's mos' bes'. If you break her heart, she go'n' die. If you deceive her liddle, she