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Al engaged at the telephone with some one whom he addressed proprietorially as Kid, was deep in his plans for the evening's diversion. Upon this accustomed scene Floss burst with havoc. "Rose! Rose, did you iron my Georgette crêpe? Listen! Guess what!" All this as she was rushing down the hall, paper hat-bag still in hand. "Guess who was in the store to-day!"
"But it isn't much use starting out to-night." The stationmaster looked proprietorially towards the station and the hotel site. There seemed room for tickets, and for the man who sold them if he were not a very large man. There was not much hope for visitors. "I'm running up a bosker hotel soon's I can get a bit of weather-boarding and a few nails along," he said hopefully.
All that afternoon she had been listening to an exotic discourse on "Woman and her Current Philosophy"; and now here was Osborn's letter, suggesting calmly, proprietorially almost, his re-entry into her life. Was it possible that he had been away for a whole year? Or possible that he had been away for only a year?
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