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"MR.

BILLY" AND "MISS MARY JANE".
On the fourteenth of December Billy came down-stairs alert, interested, and happy.

She had received a dear letter from Bertram (mailed on the way to New York), the sun was shining, and her fingers were fairly tingling to put on paper the little melody that was now surging riotously through her brain.

Emphatically, the restlessness of the day before was gone now.