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Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932

"The Real Adventure"

His sentence broke, then completed itself. She
turned away, but the next moment he called out to her, "Were you waiting
for me, Dane?"
"I'd like to speak to you a minute," she said, "when you have time."
"All right. Go and change your clothes first," he said.
Out of the tail of her eye as she departed, she saw him shaking hands
with the owner's wife and thanking her effusively for her help.
Incidentally, he was leading her toward the door as he did it. And at
the door, he declined an offer to be taken anywhere he might want to go
in her electric.
She found the other girls on the point of departure. But Olga offered to
wait for her.
"No, you run along," Rose said. "I've some errands and I don't feel like
seeing a movie to-night, anyway."
Olga looked a little odd about it, but hurried along after the others.
A saleswoman--the same one the manager assigned to Rose under the
misconception which that smart French ulster of hers had created when
she came into the store--now came around behind the screen to gather up
the frocks the girls had shed.


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