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WAR the way it said, and that is the way it happened—so far as I could recollect."

"If Dave and I had only known that you had The Lover's Companion! I suppose we did it very badly. On the first day he just suggests it. On the second day he demands it. On the third he suddenly lifts me from my horse, and nearly breaks me in two. 'You're going to be married,' says he, 'before you know it, girl!'"

"'You don't say so!' says I. 'And who is the unhappy bridegroom?'"

"'I am,'" says Dave. 'Now say when?'"

"And, did you?" asks I.

"Not yet," laughs Evelyn, "but I can easy say that I had fixed the time by myself to surprise him. Yes, tell them that I got sick making my wedding things!"

"All right," I says, and starts to go.

But she pulls me back again.

"Do you think they'll stop to wonder why a bride cuts off her hair?"

"Dave won't. He'll never know it if you don't show it to him." 236