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The Quirt

CHAPTER TWO
9/11

I hope you'll be very happy." "The kid don't want a papa; husbands are what means the most in her young life," chuckled the groom, restraining his bride when she would have risen from his knee.
"I hope you'll both be very happy indeed," said Lorraine gravely.

"Now you won't mind, mother, when I tell you that I am going to dad's ranch in Idaho.

I really meant it for a vacation, but since you won't be alone, I may stay with dad permanently.

I'm leaving to-morrow or the next day--just as soon as I can pack my trunk and get a Pullman berth." She did not wait to see the relief in her mother's face contradicting the expostulations on her lips.

She went out to the telephone in the hall, remembered suddenly that her business would be overheard by half the tenants, and decided to use the public telephone in a hotel farther down the street.


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