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Updated: May 17, 2025
After that well! who could be interested in gnat-boats when they had just lit upon the ambush of a Puzzle; a puzzle that would only open in a pinch and shut up, like a Chinese ring-box, afterwards?
"I agree," he said, thrusting the ring-box back into his pocket, "only make it short, will you, little girl?" "Yes, I will," she promised, without smiling. "I merely said that mother and Mrs. Mallaby had discussed you and me, and our marriage, and that Mrs. Mallaby had said some things about you." "Well, lots of people do that," he smiled. "Yes but they haven't said just this thing, Nat."
A red-cloth case containing a set of false teeth. A silver watch. A gold chain worth more than the watch. An empty ring-box. A little ivory Chinese god probably a desk ornament. A dollar and sixty-two cents an small change. He put the money under his pillow and the other things in the toe of an infantry boot, stuffing a stocking in on top of them.
I took one piece and he took the other, and we promised to be true to each other and always keep the pieces till we saw each other again. I've got mine at home now in a ring-box in the top drawer of my dresser. I guess I was silly to come up here looking for him. I never realized what a big place it is."
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