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 her and gave sound and really good advice, which included, among other things, a sudden and secret disappearance.

“It’s the only thing,” Kate said; “that’s what Tommy did, and you must go. I’ll help you off, and I know just the place for you to go.”

Rut Pearl Jane doggedly refused to do this. No reason would she give, and Kate retired in dudgeon.

Left to herself, Pearl Jane moped and worried, and at last, about ten o’clock, she began to think of going to bed.

And then her telephone bell rang.

“Hello,” she said, listlessly, and an answering voice said “Hello.”

Like a wave of revivifying joy, the sound went to her heart, and softly, as if half afraid, she breathed—“Tommy!”