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From the Housetops

CHAPTER IX
17/54

"He says I'm doing as well as could be expected, Miss McKane," she said glibly, "and if nothing unforeseen happens I'll be dodging automobiles in Fifth Avenue inside of two weeks.

Good-bye, Doctor." "Good-bye.

I'll look in to-morrow--afternoon," he said.
* * * * * The marriage of Anne Tresslyn and Templeton Thorpe took place at the home of the bridegroom at four o'clock on the afternoon of the twenty-third.

A departure from the original plans was made imperative at the eleventh hour by the fact that Mr.Thorpe had been quite ill during the night.

His condition was in no sense alarming, but the doctors announced that a postponement of the wedding was unavoidable unless the ceremony could be held in the Thorpe home instead of at Mrs.Tresslyn's as originally planned.


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