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The Window-Gazer

CHAPTER XV
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The doctor had reached his.

Hastily he explained that she had mistaken his meaning.

And, to prove it, engaged passage at once, for the next upcoast trip, on the same little steamer which a few days earlier had carried Mr.and Mrs.Benis H.Spence.
It was a heavenly day.

The mountains lifted them-selves out of veils of tinted mist, the islands lay like jewels--but Aunt Caroline, impervious to mere scenery, turned her thought severely inward.
"I suppose," she said to her now subdued escort, "that we shall have to pay the secretary a month's salary.

Benis will scarcely wish to take him back east with us." The doctor attempted to answer but seemed to have some trouble with his throat.
"It's the damp air," said Aunt Caroline.


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