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"Ml Blon« the nior class. I know a good lory about his taking the tw P girls over to ihe college, one nighl ut I won't give it awa\ t>1 she, giving him one of her most bewitching smih M 1 li.n a mighty nice dance i she continued, ' that fellar with the white hai ind a new mustache; but they say, that he and Miss S are not so good frien as they i I to be." "Ah said he inquisitively, leaning toward her. ' D o you know that elegant dancer with the morose face ?" "Now don't be asking me who all the fellers are. I ain't common property." Please tell me, dearie," said he coaxingly, trying to clasp her delicate hand. "Why, it er must know that's Johnny B lie tried to pick me up one night, and—" "Got left, said Frankie, insinuatingly. "Don't you wish yer knew," she said, artfully recoiling. "I'll give yer the -shook r ^er s any more;" and she turned languishingly back toward the floor. Frankie, carried away by the enchantment of the scene, was fast losing consciousness of his surroundings, when two words, and a gesture at his elbow caused him to start up tiercel} and turn deathly pale. But controlling himself 1 a powerful effort, without a word of excuse he left the hall. CHAPTER III.

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