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 *particular, but finally acknowledged that perhaps a mistake had been made. If, he said, the sender cared to put in a claim the company would take up the matter and make a thorough investigation, and if it found there really had been an error in delivery the price of the telegram would be refunded. But Laurie shook his head.

"We're a short-lived family," he explained. "Few of us Turners live to be over eighty, and so I guess there wouldn't be time. Thank you just as much."

"What it amounts to," said Ned, as they hurried back to a recitation, "is that Miss Comfort got the fellow's name wrong somehow. Or maybe his initials. Or maybe the name of his company."

"Or maybe there ain't no such animal," said Laurie. "I always did sort of doubt that any one could have a name like Goupil. It—it isn't natural, Ned!"

"Oh, well, as Bob says, 'All's swell that ends swell,' and Miss Comfort's satisfied with the way it's turned out, and so we might as well be."

"Sure," agreed Laurie. "We don't own it."

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