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 aunt. “When I am safe back in Commonwealth Avenue, and there’s no dragoman to hustle me around, I’ll have time to read about it all, and then I expect I shall begin to enthuse, and want to come right back again. But it’s just too good of you, Mr. Stephens, to try and keep us informed.”

“I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter,” said Stephens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie. She looked at it in the light of the deck lamp, and broke into her low, hearty laugh.

“Re Abousir,” she read; “now, what do you mean by ‘re,’ Mr. Stephens? You put ‘re Rameses the Second’ on the last paper you gave me.”

“It is a habit I have acquired, Miss Sadie,” said Stephens; “it is the custom in the legal profession when they make a memo.”

“Make what, Mr. Stephens?”

“A memo—a memorandum, you know. We put re so-and-so to show what it is about.”

“I suppose it’s a good short way,” said Miss Sadie, “but it feels queer somehow when