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Rh kind that tend to veer with the weather-vane of feelings, and I well knew that too ready a show of eagerness for her re-instatement would be disastrous to future success. So I felt the ground a little, toying with the bead matchbox in my hand, and gently leading up to the point by inquiring after her immediate prospects. She showed no readiness to follow my opening. She hadn't decided jest what she'd do. She was thinkin' some of the dress-makin'. Her cousin-in-law's sister thought she could do fine at it, but it had always give her a crick between the shoulders to set all day, an' she didn't know yet.

I had just murmured, "Yes, I see," in an abstracted sort of way, when Keddo burst into the room after his exuberant fashion and jumped impetuously into my lap.

"He-e-e-e-," cried Janet in a rising crescendo of admiring ecstasy, addressing Keddo. Remembering her passion for pets, I put Keddo through his small repertoire of tricks, winding up with the engaging little paw-shake he is so irresistible about. That clinched the matter, I could hardly get Janet out of the house, and two days after, she rang up to say that if I was wantin' anybody, she'd come, add-