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"Thank you very much for the photograph frame. It was just what I wanted. Very good of you. I say, do you know what that Kneyght person has given me? Just what you said he would a wretched fan. What? Oh yes, quite a good enough fan in its way, but still . . ." "You must come and see what he's given me," came in Eleanor's voice over the 'phone. "You! Why should he give you anything?"
"You look worried, dear," said Eleanor. "I am worried," admitted Suzanne; "not worried exactly, but anxious. You see, my birthday happens next week " "You lucky person," interrupted Eleanor; "my birthday doesn't come till the end of March." "Well, old Bertram Kneyght is over in England just now from the Argentine.
"There's our man!" exclaimed Suzanne suddenly; "hurry!" Mr. Bertram Kneyght greeted his cousin and her friend with genuine heartiness, and readily accepted their invitation to explore the crowded mart that stood temptingly at their elbow. The plate-glass doors swung open and the trio plunged bravely into the jostling throng of buyers and loiterers.
"It's Suzanne's birthday on Wednesday next," confided Eleanor to Bertram Kneyght at a moment when Suzanne had left them unusually far behind; "my birthday comes the day before, so we are both on the look-out for something to give each other." "Ah," said Bertram. "Now, perhaps you can advise me on that very point. I want to give Suzanne something, and I haven't the least idea what she wants."
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