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The Early Bird

CHAPTER XVI
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My whole life is changed since I met you.

I need you.

I can not do without you.

I--" "Beg your pardon, Sam," said Mr.Stevens, appearing suddenly in the doorway, and then he paused, much more confused even than the young people, for Sam was holding both Miss Josephine's hands and gazing down at her with an earnestness which, if harnessed, would have driven a four-ton dynamo; and she was gazing up at him just as earnestly, with an entirely breathless, but by no means displeased expression.
"Excuse me!" stammered Mr.Stevens.
[Illustration: "Excuse me!" stammered Mr.Stevens.] It was Miss Josephine who first found her aplomb.

She smiled her rare smile of mingled amusement and mischief at Sam, and then at her father.
"You're quite excusable, I guess, father," she said sweetly.


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