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I'll show you, Mayme. Wait till I come back if I ever do come back and you'll be sorry." "Hero stuff," commented the Little Red Doctor. "It'll all have oozed out of his fingertips this time to-morrow." "Will you show me a place to enlist?" challenged the boy. "And," he added with a malicious grin, "will you enlist with me?" "Sure!" said the Little Red Doctor. "I'll show you.
In any case I trust that you know better, after this, than to have anything more to do with him." "Yep. I've cut him out," replied Mayme listlessly. "I figured you and Doc were right, Dominie. It's no good, his kind of game. Not for girls like me." She looked up at me with limpid eyes, in which there was courage and determination and suffering.
"My dear," I murmured, "I hope it isn't going to be too hard." "He's so pretty," said Mayme McCartney wistfully. So he was, now that I came to think of it. With his clear, dark color, his wavy hair, his languishing brown eyes, his almost girlishly graceful figure, and his beautiful clothes, he was pretty enough to fascinate any inexperienced imagination.
Catechized upon the point, later on, by a self-appointed committee of two consisting of the Little Red Doctor and myself, Mayme said vaguely that it was all right; we didn't understand. This is, I believe, the usual formula. The last half of it at least, was true.
Young Berthelin's over-ornate roadster lingered in our quiet precincts more often than appeared to us suitable or safe, and black-eyed Mayme, looking demure and a little exalted, was whirled away to unknown worlds, always returning, however, at respectable hours.
"They serve it fresh, every morning, right here in Our Square," Mayme pointed out. "Good idea. Get up early and fill your lungs full of it for an hour every day." He gave some further instructions. Mayme produced a dollar, and delicately placed it on the mantel. "Take it away," said the Little Red Doctor. "Didn't I tell you " "Go-wan!" said Mayme. "Whadda you think you are; Bellevue Hospital?
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