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Marjorie’s Maytime

CHAPTER X
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She may think it's a great joke, and she may burst out crying.

She's such a funny girl." In a moment Stella came down.

The janitor was with her, and opened the door for her.

As she saw the two Quaker figures her face expressed only blank bewilderment.
"Who are you ?" she asked, bluntly.

"I haven't any aunts in Philadelphia." "Oh, yes, you have," said King, in his falsetto voice, "Don't you remember your dear Aunt Effie and Aunt Lizzie ?" "No, I don't," declared Stella, and then as she showed signs of being frightened, and perhaps crying, Marjorie came to the rescue.
She hated to explain the joke before the janitor, but he looked good-natured, and after all it was only a joke.


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