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 "Only," she said, "we thought the other furniture ought to be mahogany, and the filing-cabinet there now is oak and it would look sort of funny, I suppose, with the other things."

"How much would all that cost?" asked Lanny anxiously.

"We don't know exactly. We can get the furniture from a New York store where papa buys things and they will give it to us at a discount."

"How much of a discount?" asked Dick.

"Thirty per cent.," replied Morris. "That would make quite a difference. Read the prices we figured, Louise."

"Rug, sixteen dollars," announced his sister, referring again to the paper; "desk, forty-five; revolving book-case, twelve; swivel-chair, twelve; easy-chair, twenty; straight chair, five; filing-cabinet, eighteen. Total, one hundred and twenty-eight."

There was a moment's silence. Then Gordon whistled expressively. Dick shook his head.

"That's a lot of money to have to get in four weeks," he said.

"Five," said Morris.

"Well, five, if you like, Morris, but we'd probably