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She couldn't find out. She sent for Nourse and asked him, "What's going on in the office?" "The press agent is pushing him hard," was Nourse's gloomy answer, "for that row of patriotic atrocities up on Riverside Drive." Ethel squirmed. "But he won't!" she cried. "He couldn't!" "Oh, yes he could," Joe's partner growled. "There's so much money in it!" "If he puts that through I'm done for!"
At another time she suggested that Joe's partner be asked to spend the rest of the summer with him in the apartment back in town. It was doubtless so much cooler at night than Nourse's bachelor quarters. And Emily Giles could take care of them both. But this overture, too, Bill Nourse declined.
When she came back a half hour later, Ethel still had that resolute look. The door of Joe's room was still closed and she saw Nourse's hat in the hall. She turned and went to the telephone, stopped and frowned. "Yes, that's the next thing." She called up Amy's friend Fanny Carr. But at the sound of the woman's voice which came back over the wire, Ethel gave a start of dismay.
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