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The Early Bird

CHAPTER XVI
17/20

You were glad the first day we met, and you always will be glad! Whatever you have to say about it just now don't count.

I'm going to let you alone a while to think it over, and then I'm coming back to tell you more about it," and with that Sam stalked from the room, leaving Miss Josephine Stevens gasping, dazed, quite sure that he was unforgivable, indignant with everything, still rankling, in spite of all Sam had said, with the thought that she had been made a mere part of a commercial transaction.

Why, it was like those barbarous countries she had read about, where wives are bought and sold! Preposterous and unbearable! While she was in this storm of mixed emotions her father came in upon her, this time seriously perplexed.
"What has happened to Sam Turner ?" he demanded.

"He slammed out of the house, passed me on the porch with only a grunt, and jumped into his automobile.

You must have done something to anger him." "I hope that I did!" she retorted with spirit.


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