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Rh Tom thought for a second that this must mean that after all, his hopes had been unfounded; that Susan had at last decided that she ought not to marry him. He turned pale, and spoke very slowly.

"Yes, it would be a very great disappointment to me," he said. "But" He would probably have finished his sentence with his characteristic phrase, "It 's all right, Sue, all right," if he had not just then looked up. Tears were in Sue's eyes, and her hands were stretched toward him.

"Oh, Tom!" she cried, "if you really have been so sure, why have n't you made me come to you before?"

"So there was never a day without a Mrs, Thomas Lawton in town, after all," wrote Bell, describing her own and Sue's wedding to a friend.

"We were married first,—Sue and Tom would have it so,—and as soon as the minister had made me into Mrs. Fred Ballister, he hurried on to make Sue into me. It is really very odd to hear her called Mrs. Lawton. I don't get used to it. But, my dear, if you want to see two happy people, you just ought to see Tom and Sue. I declare it is marvelous. You would n't think they were in the least suited to each other. You know, dear Tom is queer to the last degree. Much as I love him I never could live with him. I 've always said so But Sue manages him most beautifully, and no