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"And somehow she thought this was a book-bill from Longstreet's you know how near-sighted she is so she stuck it into her desk until she got her next month's allowance. But to-day she found some money that she'd put in her collar-case for safe-keeping and forgotten about; so she got out the bill to pay it, and it turned out to be a letter from her mother, saying she was coming up tonight.
"You see, dear," explained Mary, when the lights were finally turned on and the hair-raising had resolved itself into a spread, "you see I had a hair-raising because you tell ghost stories so well. Why, ever since I read your letter I've been planning how I should show you off Oh, mother, it's too good to keep." And Mary regaled her mother with the story of the neglected book-bill.
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