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Rh "You wish to keep me away from home that length of time?"

"If you must know, yes."

"And why? So Josiah Crabtree can—can" She did not finish.

"So that Mr. Crabtree can interview your mother—yes," put in Mumps, who had just appeared. "Baxter, there's no use in beating around the bush. Crabtree is bound to marry Mrs. Stanhope, and Dora may as well know it now as later."